Be Tall

"Do you remember?" she asked.  "Do you remember as we sat there, and I said that this is the happiest I could ever be?"
I remembered.
" I'm always going to be with you, in spirit," she cried.  "But I'm not ready to say goodbye."

It's been an emotionally driven 24 hours.  I'll probably talk about it a little later down the line.

For now, I am looking forwards to next week.

The forest speaks

There are times when clarity comes from those darkened moments.  Like a seed hiding within its concealed shell, light eventually penetrates the hardened exterior and transparency bursts open into the waiting sunlight.  We shed our old skin, and step within a new.
When the soles of your feet are all cried out from the journey that brought you here, you stop for a while, breathe, and notice that within that absence a change occurred.  We are as mirrors for one another, reflecting thoughts and safeguarding against conspiracies.
Place your hand against the body of this living entity, and feel its breath.  
Mirrors we are.  We can take so much more than we think we can take.

Bronte under the Willow Tree (little peak)

The last five days have brought with it a freshness that I have missed within my life.  I've always known that I was lucky, but these past few days have reaffirmed to me how blessed I am to have the people that I do in my life...the greatest part of it all though is that they are my cousins.  Inspiration can be found all around us, but there are few people that I look up to in life...my dear Kalinz is one of them.  I didn't need an older sister going through my journey, because she is it.  Watching her family grow, and mine just starting, nothing makes me brighter inside than the moments when we are all together. 
These are two of my favourite images from the weekend, and I really wanted to share them.  It's hard to keep something to yourself, when it makes you so warm with  happiness.
This is just a sneak peak of many more images from them to come.

Dust

I am both He and She within the one body. 

I am both under and over within the same skin. 

I am both elated and wretched within the same bones. 

Both in here and in there, I stand as one. 

Living the same dream. 

Fighting the same battle. 

I am both yours and mine within the same bed.
Beneath the same covers.

Buried beneath the same fears

And uplifted by them.

Play that same song

When my bones are picked dry.

Rest me within the embrace of a combustible star

and beneath the shadow of your mountain.