And We're Off!

Read this on one of my favorite blogs (thank you Superhero)

and needed to repost it

it serves me well right now...

Going to go "meet" myself in the woods again

After eight months of the grind

I can't wait to go back home

I am thankful for this time

I have learned a lot

I hope I have given what I have received

I hope I receive what is given

this is my prayer

till then~

shine on!

Love after Love

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 image from the mirror.

Sit.

Feast on your life.

~ Derek Walcott ~