Gratitude on a Sunday morning

 Gratitude

For your mystery and your madness
For your beauty and your broken places
For your magnetism and your majesty
For your effervescent personality
For your raw, unfiltered sensuality and your sensible frugality

For your contradictions
For your grace
For your granola curiosity
For THAT smile upon THAT face
For the healing and the hope
For unedited disappointments
For your short-fused impatience and the even shorter time it takes for you to return to a big-love kind of balance

For your growth and your arrival
For the unnatural need to be constantly told, “I love you”
For your boundary-making, rule-breaking, honeydew-list-contemplating, game-of-life-playing, perspective-changing way you approach this big, bold, beauty journey. 

For the adventure and the advice
For the extreme jealousy and overwhelming pride
For the green, stomach-churning
For the deep-breathed worries
For the timeless soul story
For the sweetness and the flames
For the pleasure and the pain
For the complicated
For the Daisy in your name
For that wild lioness mane
For the perfect parts in between
For the imperfect hearts that still sing

I am grateful.

Distance

I’m not sure what happened between yesterday and today… but I felt the deliberate distance.

I hope you felt empowered and challenged. 

I hope you new class filled you up

I know you are focused.

I know you have what it takes.

I also know today was different.

I am proud of your hard work, and I still miss you in the midst of it. 

Thank you

Thank you for inviting me in

Thank you for showing me grace

Thank you for letting me help you win

Thank you for never hiding your face

Thank you for your depth and your laughter

Thank you for softness underneath

Thank you for the sweet taste that comes after

Thank you for side only I get to see

Thank you for the challenge and the friction

Thank you for the bright granola point of view

Thank you for the insatiable desire and drive

Thank you for letting me love you 

All this hard work

 I believe is absolutely worth it

I still believe in our love

In your heart 

In my honest prayers.

I love you more than you will ever possibly understand 

Friday morning blessing

I bless you from the top of your gorgeous mane

to the tips of your perfect toes,
and every magnificent place in between.

I bless your eyes
to see the world through the lenses of enchantment.

I bless your ears
to hear the song that calls to your heart.

I bless your cute little red nose
to wrinkle deeply from all your smiles
and all your laughter.

I bless those intoxicating lips
to speak the truth in love.

I bless your mind
to always be curious,
and to be filled with wisdom beyond yourself.

I bless your slender, elegant neck
to carry you with grace.

I bless your voice
my favorite sound in all the world
to be true,
to sing,
and to know that it matters.

I bless your shoulders
to be strong enough to bear the weight
they are meant to hold,
and nothing more than that.

I bless your heart
to beat with passion,
to love bigger than you ever imagined,
and to help heal the wounds of those you love.

I bless your breasts,
which have captivated me since day one
a magnet for my affection.

I bless your belly,
that there, at the core of who you are,
you would know your truth
and trust your intuition deeply.

I bless your pussy,
the sacred center of the masterpiece that is you.

I bless your ass
to always serve tea from her top shelf.

I bless your legs
to carry you farther than you ever knew you could go,
with endurance and grace,
and to forever shine in those high heels of yours.

And I bless your feet,
that at the end of the day,
after all the pathways you’ve journeyed,
they would still call to my hands
to soothe them.

And I bless your soul,
my other half,
to remember just how deeply,
truly,
and endlessly
you are loved.

Absence

 Absence

These long miles,
these even longer days
the longing never rests;
the love unconditionally remains.

Those endless hours,
those dramatic moments in between
the prayers grow ever stronger,
speaking life to a true-hearted dream.

If absence makes the heart grow fonder,
if distance calls our hearts home,
then I’ll bless the tender tension of the journey
for loving you is the greatest adventure I’ve ever known.

I love you

With an everlasting love

A true and endless love

A deep and ancient love

An unconditional love

A fiercely protective love

A ravenously passionate love

A devoted love

A worshipful love

Like a lion and a llama 

A hawk and a butterfly 

You are the one my soul loves