“The Trick Is To Enjoy Life. Don’t Wish Away Your Days, Waiting For Better Ones Ahead.”

Jane Austen, from “Pride and Prejudice”

Aphrodite: god I have a headache

Athena: you tend to have a lot of headaches

Aphrodite: I don’t drink enough water

Athena: oh yeah me neither

Aphrodite: hot girls are dehydrated

Athena: that’s what I’m saying

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Find someone who makes you realize three things: one, that home is not a place, but a feeling. Two, that time is not measured by a clock, but by moments. And three, that heartbeats are not heard, but felt and shared.”

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The conversation I wish we would have

His chest was slick with sweat as I shifted against his side to pull the covers up around myself and finally ask the question that had been burning inside me since we had started sleeping together again.

Afraid to possibly face the rejection in his eyes, I pressed a kiss to his cheek before tucking my face into his neck.

“Who are we to each other?”

The hand that had been lazily trailing up and down my spine faltered. I wished I hadn't asked.

We had been strangers, friends with benefits, lovers, each other’s, estranged for a while, friends again, and now- now I didn't know how to label us. Didn't know if he wanted to label us.

To label us would make things real and complicated and messy.

Another moment is stillness and his hand resumed its path on my back.

“You tell me.”

His answer was a non- answer. An avoidance. A turn around.

“You know what I would like is to be. What I want us to be again.”

I shifted again to lean against his chest so I could meet his eyes now.

“What feels like forever ago, we stood in the kitchen, and I told you I had to say the words at least once.”

His hand tightened around my waist as I ran my hand up his neck to hold his cheek.

“I have to say it again. I need to say it again.”

“Then say it.”

“I love you. I am in love with you.”

“I know.”

“You will never have to question my loyalty.”

— Unknown

Nam myoho Renge kyo

Daily Guidance

1st May

As you make your way home tonight, may you pause for a moment to gaze up at the night sky and let your heart communicate with the moon in wordless dialogue. Perhaps you might compose a poem and set it down in your journal entry for today. I would like you to possess such a poetic spirit.

- Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President

“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?” - Jojo Moyes, After You

Complicata

Part of the conundrum When understanding you There’s never enough time Only bare words and ash

wpm

““Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild”

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