Hello

After a bit of ups and downs - I finally said that I love you. It took a bit of time away, for me to realize that what was before me was real and that I had maintained a distance for one of many different reasons.

I hate to say that I stayed home and cried - but I did or that I went on a few dates that were disasters - but they were - and then arrived at this great realization. I don't want the lives of loved ones around me to make it seem like they are the reason. I think back to the millions of lines of poetry that talk about love and its power. And early love is a wonderful thing - better than any human experience and the sense of peace runs deep.

So now with the proclamation delivered - and at the same time - a level of trust wounded by the distance that caused the declaration - we wait in 'joyful hope' - see where it takes us - and find a moment that does not have some kind of plan - but just is.