Today did not start as well as I had hoped, but no one EVER hopes their day will be anything less than pleasant. Last night, I prayed for healing and a good following day, as a pressure ulcer has plagued my life the last five years. As with all days, God has his own plans and sometimes, those plans do not include pleasantries I deem necessary. This evening I started drawing: first a yellow scribble, then a purple, and then brown lines. As time went on, I noticed I had created a field of flowers. What started as chaos, eventually showed structure. Your life has structure as well (Jeremiah 18:1-6).

Eve

God built women with all the finest bells and whistles: beauty, laughter, wisdom, humility, modesty, maternity, hospitality.

There be none of Beauty's daughters --Lord Byron

There be none of Beauty's daughters

With a magic like Thee;

And like music on the waters

Is thy sweet voice to me:

When, as if its sound were causing

The charméd ocean's pausing,

The waves lie still and gleaming,

And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:

And the midnight moon is weaving

Her bright chain o'er the deep,

Whose breast is gently heaving

As an infant's asleep:

So the spirit bows before thee

To listen and adore thee;

With a full but soft emotion,

Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

for my C.

I'm in love, obsessed with the joy that you exist, more than just in my mind. You are the quintessential desire my heart has searched for, my counterpoint, my passionate princess.

Half-truths are still bold face lies...

just that. well, it's me blaming Verizon wireless. Man they love to slip in contracts where they said there was none.  gotta read customer agreement and ignore salesman baloney about what you're signing.