These are the first footfalls. Grand designs await in lingering dawns where your hands will shake with nerves and sweat will bead at your hairline, expectation and fear in equal measure feeding your freight-train pulse; rich emotion seizing your every resource. I hope the small victories prepare you, that when your heart swells or breaks, […]
Read MoreDon’t go. Never stray from our sides, granting us stung smiles, a constant display of thrilling humor and unabashed ridiculousness. Be here always, warm heart. Accept the eye-rolls and calamity with quiet cuddles on cold nights, be our kindness. Greet friends with head down, accepting hands instinctively poised to scratch the scruff of you, and […]
Read MoreCrouched on the precipice. Studying the edge. Calculating risk. With bets you won’t hedge. I know your heart, for it’s just like mine. We see everything the same, though you’re the youngest, you will be the best, the apex of our line. He knows it too, your grandfather, your mentor, your friend. He’ll watch your […]
Read MoreMy son, the director. #takesafterhisdad #proud #love #sweet #director #funny #cute #adorable #bath #son #boy #toddler (at Casa de Santo)
Read MoreNever crawling, enduring the progress of long days as a stationary stay on sills, shining sun kissing shell, smile drawn silent, this everyday companion lightens the weighted beats of a plummeting heart. The effort of each day melting ambition, mirrors claiming age’s victory, the lines of worry gray streaks pulled through thinning hair, each hour […]
Read MoreWalking through Summer, their locked hands discovered. She white with expectation and gentle apprehension. Him gray with duty and protective thoughts. The procession stood to greet their sun bathed entrance as children laughed and swam in view behind revelers and under cloudless blue futures. A man awaited to bind his future to her, gray seeking […]
Read MoreClasped in clandestine embrace, a knot with no release and fused souls entwine, singing a silent chorus reverberating through nervous figures. Tensions at the sight of each other. Wringing hands, sweat beading, shifting weight on tense heels, awaiting connection. Breath arrests at simple admissions, commonalities, spirit sightings and courteous discourse. No apparition, no absence of […]
Read MoreKid has quite the comprehensive collection of colored, cake and candy coated candles. #alliterationfornoreason #candles #toddler #ocd #wax #why #huh #cute #sweet #love #son #play (at Santo’s Candle Palace)
Read MoreBurn for me as if you were a candle, your passions wax feeding the flame of your desires. Lick at the night with heat, leaving traces of light behind your kiss and dispelling dark and quiet with your expiring breath. Feverish and glowing, sink into me, feigning nothing, accepting, fighting facades and built needs surrounding […]
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