“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

did you awaken as did i to this moment of eternity re-membering that the cosm, the mysterious implicate order with every breath is making an irresistible offer? thousand fold thanks, Desiree, and everyone for conspiring to gift me/us with so many moments of savoring these almost twenty-nine hundred days of  awakening initiation into wedding and weaving the cosmic I AM presence into the lush field of the divine matrix, of love after love…

“Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”

~Derek Walcott~

may we all, in this moment, no matter where we are, take this moment to feel the support of the vast skysea, our earthmother who loves us so and all the trillions and trillions of cells of our one body and to sit and feast on the dance of life…