I am in Chapter 2. Olivia and I had a long talk about the nature of the Wood Between the Worlds. Five and three-quarter year olds have a surprisingly deep understanding of metaphysics.

From Chapter 2:

The faint colors that a sunrise can add to countryside often reveal a beauty unseen by day. As...

From Designs

Celebrate The Spirit needed a new site design for their gathering this year.Simple, elegant, and magical. Images of Phoenixes and themes of rebirth came together and made this.

of you my fingers dream unknown curves untouched knees thighs hips

of you my lips thirst a mythical taste

that wafts upon your breath in my dreams

i dream of your lips and the laughter that dances behind your eyes and of the quiet evening by the fire when we will talk together of how we met long ago

wish that i were the kiss upon your lips to stay as we part and sigh to be the taste of our passion moist and rich born of a moment between us

to dance my hands around your hips and across your back

to draw you toward me so closely that breath is an effort

to drape your mane about my face

to trace your shape with my fingertips

to taste your essence upon my lips

to feel your very soul reverberate within me

somehow i know you would never have even spoken to me in high school

and that makes you scary somehow

i wonder as we talk about when i ripened in your eyes

about when it became okay to be seen with someone like me

holding you closely snuggled tightly together

and in that moment i felt hollow.

utterly unseen and unknown.

wearing an echo where i dream my heart to lay.

hearing only my breath and not the words said to me.

i imagine waking beside you eyes half closed hearing you rise and watching your shadow’s shape move across the room.

entwined i taste passion upon your lips and thirst

would that i could consume and savor passion both at once

to utterly know and to linger over the warming nectar that we kindle between us

beneath a sky dappled with stars

i tasted you upon my lips

chocolate could not hope to compare

Liv, Lucia, her Mom, and a trampoline…. (Olivia took these pictures. She’s 5!)