Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.