total lunar eclipse

[ricepaper]

february snow, delicate as lace and as finely wrought, ornaments the dusk. those plain, blue hours of repose, of consolation. the silver-blue of snowfall. the sapphire-black of silhouetted trees. the moon rises and is eclipsed, darkened to umber by umbral shadow. these miracles reaffirm that the world is but a place of passage. love overflows

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[tree]

i was reminded of this:

"My daughter, sweet to me; my daughter, my
beloved, my temple; my daughter, my beloved,
love me, since you have been much loved by me,
much more than you love me."

"And after I have laid myself in you, now lay
yourself in me.

This is my creature."

you are the full moon, honey, rising.

(love)

[ricepaper]

i have this in the program that i lovingly kept from the performance of 'the passion of joan of arc' with the baltimore choral arts society. i come back to this passage in particular again and again, and reading it always sparks a kind of electricity in me. on some intuitive level you must have known this. :) and really, it means so much to me that you receive and understand what i try to express here -- you probably even see me as better than i really am. :) thankyou so much, my girl. (i am working, by the way, on a letter that i will send very soon.)

Re: (love)

[tree]

i think i remembered that we talked about this once. i love that CD so very much and the performance was just transcendent. i say that a lot but only because it is true. :)

also i do not see you as better than you really are. i just see you as your beauty and grace exists, which is its own transcendent thing.

yay, letter!

[avatraxiom]

<3 :-)

I was just thinking about you, about two days ago. It's lovely as always to see you write something. :-)

-Max

[ricepaper]

yes, i've been away from here for some time, haven't i? :) these days i am writing letters more than anything else. it makes me glad to know that i was in your thoughts. and thankyou, ofcourse, as always. :)

[avatraxiom]

You're welcome. :-)

It's always nice to write letters. It's been a while since I've done that! It's fun to both write and receive real mail.

-Max

[ricepaper]

ah, you give me too much credit. :) the "letters" of which i speak are the electronic, sent-through-the-ether variety, rather than the paper and ink variety. writing by hand can be difficult for me lately, but this comment has inspired me to attempt something handwritten. you're right -- it's so nice and a lovely gesture.

[bettyray]

"through the eyes of reverence alone do we behold the miracles that were always present."

YES, so yes

[ricepaper]

i'm so glad that this connects with you.
i have the same "yes" moments with much of your writing, too. i know i've said before that what you write is resonant, but it bears repeating. :)

[bettyray]

if you ever have the time and feel like chatting about stuff, i'm on AIM (simultagnosia) and yahoo (ocatekat).

[ricepaper]

that would be wonderful. :)
i am not on AIM often ("birchpaper"), but i will look for you when i am.

[ricepaper]

i like this part: "Love is always recreating her again, always new and always ready to make all things new, because newness is simply part of the infinity that Love is." thankyou for sharing it.