Racconto YEG

 A little head cold, and a bad sleep, compounded with an emotionally exhausting day required refuelling with a little special stop at Lucky Kitchen

  Found some treasure in a thrift store pocket—last in circulation in 1989 and not legal tender anymore! Wow! Also, watched The Secret World of Arrietty with N and it was a delight

 Had a lovely dinner conversation with Raven that lasted three hours. There is so much comfort to sit with a person who has known and grown with you over a few decades. Also, sharing words unearths truths that were there all along but felt shrouded somehow. 

 A new year…feeling bursts of energy is better than no energy at all but still know that pacing myself is the best option. Trying this year to capitalize on the small moments and wins!

Things feel hard right now. and I am not sure what my balance is, why I cant stop shooting myself in the foot, why I both welcome and loathe this range of human emotions.

  LOVE AFTER LOVE by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.