Where You Go

Where you go, I will go

Where you stay, I will stay

I am yours, as you are mine

For forever and a day

Without you I cannot be

Just as stars cannot shine

Without the blanket of night

So I am yours and you are mine.

One

One day

Til your arms

Your smile

Your eyes looking

Directly into mine.

<3

A Year Ago

A year ago I would not have guessed how in love I would be today.

A year ago I could not have known that such feelings were even possible.

A year ago I had just started getting to know you.

Oh to think of a year from now and all that is yet to be known!

I love you - every day, for every year of the rest of our lives.

Good News

I asked friends for their good news today and my heart was lifted. Whether big or small, people had wonderful things to share about their lives or their days. Life is perspective. We find our happiness from ourselves and how we choose to see the world. Shit happens. Shitty, awful things happen in this world. But we have so much power in the choice we make about whether we let the muck, the dirt, and the darkness overtake us or not. Don't let go of your light, your compassion, your hope, your joy. Whether your light is blinding, a roaring blaze, a single ray, or a mere shimmer, choose it and believe in it. Let others help you kindle it. Because the world needs your light to help see through the dark.

The Point of Everything

Love:

Give and receive it.

Celebrate and cherish it.

Share it freely.

Allow it to reach you.

Let it protect you.

Let it heal you.

Let it support and sustain you.

Let it move you.

Let it change you.

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11/15 - Love Enters In

Love enters in
And gathers the nations
To peace at one table
To share in one cup.

Love enters in
With grace and forgiveness,
A light in the darkness
To heal broken hearts.

So let us give thanks
And sing praise to the One
Who chose us in love
Through the life of the Son.

And as we gather together
To glory in Him,
Let us stand open-hearted
As Love enters in.

Saturday Song

7 days, my love.

Priez pour paix

Priez pour paix

Douce Vierge Marie,

Reine des cieux et du monde maîtresse,

Faites prier, par votre courtoisie,

Saints et Saints, et prenez votre adresse

Vers votre Fils, requérant sa Hautesse

Qu’il lui plaise son peuple regarder,

Que de son song a voulu racheter,

En déboutant guerre qui tout dévoie.

De prières ne vous vueillez lasser.

Priez pour paix, priez pour paix,

Le vrai trésor de joie.

-----

Pray for peace

Gentle Virgin Mary,

Queen of the skies and Mistress of the world,

of your courtesy, ask for the prayers

of all the saints, and make your address

to your Son, beseeching his Majesty

that he may please to look upon his people,

whom he wished to redeem with his blood,

banishing war which disrupts all.

Do not cease your prayers.

Pray for peace, pray for peace,

the true treasure of joy.

~ Charles d’Orléans, 1938, published in Le Figaro in Paris, France, just before the start of WWII

Set to music by Francis Poulenc.

Rapture

In these gifts you give this earth

I hear

I feel

Your soul.

This is not mere fantasy

Nor an echo of a dream;

it is a knowing 

Of all the beauty inside you

Poured out for others.

Another time I shall peruse

The pensive attitude 

Plaguing me with wonderings:

Why me

How am I worthy of

Such feeling, of such knowing?

For now I shall lay down my head,

Open to the wondrous rapture

Of you,

And peacefully I shall rest.

The Gravity

That night

My soul felt the gravity

Before my head

Or heart

Could wrap tendrils of thought

Around your affections.

That night

My soul read the future

From the palm of your

Open heart.

That night 

My soul knew what had to be

And so fell 

Into your open arms

That had been waiting for me

For eternity.

11/10

Take your time

And let things heal.

Don't rush

Back into life

The way you want to

Or the way you think

You should.

My Heart

My heart, to all things, but especially one thing, shouts an exuberant YES!

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Sending surprises

Sharing dreams

Calling out of the blue

Making time

Sharing laughter

Making plans

Admiring achievements and talents

Supporting goals

Being honest and vulnerable

Taking care of both ourselves and each other

Sharing challenges and burdens

Sending dog pictures :)

Taking chances and believing in good

Love is

Make it Through

With you

I'll make it through.

All you are to me

Helps me see the light.

With you

I'll make it through.

Every joy you bring

Makes every day so bright.

And so I'll make it through

I won't give up the fight

I will make it through

To be with you.

Brave

Alone I'm not scared,

But with you I'm brave.

Alone I'm not weak,

But with you I'm strong.

Alone I stand firm,

But with you I conquer.

Alone I exist,

But with you I live.

11/5 Brief Wisdom

Be dependable,

Reliable,

These traits will get you far.

There Are People

There are people

Who, when faced with the question of love,

Will quote the improbability, according to statistics,

That a life with someone else beside you really will turn out.

There are people

Who hide themselves away from 

The openness it takes

To maybe, perhaps, fall for someone,

Because they're afraid of the statistically-likely heartbreak.

There are people

Who keep themselves away from

The openness love takes

By melting down the heart to prevent the feeling,

Melting down the heart to avoid the feeling

Beyond physical need.

There are people...

They're the "they" of "they say" 

When we say that "they say that..." followed by

A made up statistic to defend and deny

Our own fears at the feeling of

Loving,

Loving and maybe losing.

But what about loving and maybe... Keeping?

There are people

Who might say that we, you and I, are statistically improbable.

I don't know if I agree.

But the one thing I do know,

Is we defy some kind of odds...

Because I'm not afraid of the losing,

Because I know it's you I'm choosing,

Today

And every day.

It's just you and me... Not they. 

There are people... And then there's us.

Rest

Rest, dear heart,

And ride on the wings of whispered melodies

Through the velvet night where,

In the realm existing beyond

Distance and dreams,

You and I may rest

Together

Always in each other's arms.  

I Couldn't

I couldn't ask for anything more.

Search for Inspiration

It's there, somewhere.
Out among the floating wisps
Of thought and ideas.
Elusive, tentative
Awaiting just the right grasp,
A tickle, a nudge,
To emerge from the fray
And whisper the song
Into the heart of its seeker.

Today

Today was a full day of singing and as much as I stressed about it, all of it was fun and so fulfilling.

Pre-audition selfie:

Mid-show selfie:

I'm doing this whole "singing for a living" thing. How cool is that?!