I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.