"When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time- the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes- when there’s a ( Read more... )

We know when a relationship ends. But do we know when a relationship ends?

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Where have I been ( Read more... )

I am dreaming in romance languages. 

What I have learned, or what I am learning again, or maybe just wrapping my head around is how we all have our limits of things we can deal with.  I know it sounds simple but really it isn't. It isn't simple because no one knows when the time will come and  they will reach their limit. When it will all become too much, Or when they will decide to ( Read more... )

We used to love to dance. I have moments where I can, when I think I can, hear your voice. And where I remember  your smile, remember your eyes meeting mine.

It is suicide awareness month.

So much goes unsaid. Because you are not here to say it to.

Three years and it feels like yesterday.

But what moves me most - or what I will talk about any way, are within the first words in this book ( Read more... )

Pointedly ambiguous.
More than a twitter statement. Less than a night of conversation.
Seconds of answers. Multitudes ...
days of questions...
on the chopping block poised bare for prying eyes
Overly thoughtful. Thinking. 
Based
Always based