I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.