To Know You...
Jul. 21st, 2011 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
This is why knowing someone deeply is such a treasure. It opens the sky of all time. It lets the song come out of the sea. It lets the heart like a photograph be developed for being touched by another.
I am finally here, finally home, where I am known and loved as deeply as I wish to know and love. It's been a busy first week, and in some ways a little strange because of it. Settling into new routines, settling into doing the things we wanted to do, a step at a time for one reason or another, but at the same time comforted by the familiar things I know are here, that I know will be and will happen, and all. I can't express enough how much everything means to me.
And then there are the little moments when she turns around and says things like, 'you take such good care of me,' or comes out of the bedroom singing 'loves, loves, loves,' like she did this morning. They are so totally her, and also so completely affirming… beautiful. I wish I could do the same more often than I do. These moments are the bright leaves that are laid at my feet.
As I'm typing this, I told her I'd found her passport, and got mercilessly teased about it. I'd said I hadn't had it, it was in my bag after all. I was teased… I should have known it was coming. *chuckles* Another bright leaf that lands at my feet.
To know someone deeply
is like hearing the moon through the ocean
or having a hawk lay bright leaves at your feet.
It seems impossible, even while it happens.
This is why knowing someone deeply is such a treasure. It opens the sky of all time. It lets the song come out of the sea. It lets the heart like a photograph be developed for being touched by another.
I am finally here, finally home, where I am known and loved as deeply as I wish to know and love. It's been a busy first week, and in some ways a little strange because of it. Settling into new routines, settling into doing the things we wanted to do, a step at a time for one reason or another, but at the same time comforted by the familiar things I know are here, that I know will be and will happen, and all. I can't express enough how much everything means to me.
And then there are the little moments when she turns around and says things like, 'you take such good care of me,' or comes out of the bedroom singing 'loves, loves, loves,' like she did this morning. They are so totally her, and also so completely affirming… beautiful. I wish I could do the same more often than I do. These moments are the bright leaves that are laid at my feet.
As I'm typing this, I told her I'd found her passport, and got mercilessly teased about it. I'd said I hadn't had it, it was in my bag after all. I was teased… I should have known it was coming. *chuckles* Another bright leaf that lands at my feet.
