kiss…kiss…kiss

We were shame proof in our love. Here happily snogging in the lobby of the Ace Hotel AND trying to take a selfie. A bemused young tourist offered to take pictures for us, so we handed him the camera and continued …

Cosmic Joke?

OK so this is getting a little ridiculous.  A small fly seems to have fallen in love with me.  It has been following me around for a little over a week.  It sits on my pillow at night, settles by my desk during the day and flutters about the kitchen while I cook.  It shows…

Finding The Path

‘You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere.  Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart.  The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step.  That there are steps beyond is a matter of faith. That we have…

To Love

Lovers from all over the globe have attached so many little padlocks to the bridges of Paris to symbolize their everlasting love that some bridges may be sagging under the weight. Some grumpy locals are petitioning to get the locks banned, but the city of love is refusing to remove them.  Here’s to love!

Love

‘Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries’ – Truman Capote 

Love Is All That Matters

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross helped create the US hospice movement (she was opposed to euthanasia because ‘it doesn’t allow people time to complete their unfinished business.’).  Her book Life Lessons contains what she learned by sitting at the bedside of the dying.  Here are a few of my favorite quotes – ‘Love is all that matters. Love is…

Rumi

I sent this Rumi poem to Laura just after we met From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for Today I have found you and…

Soul Mate Test

When I am not sure how I feel about something (which is surprisingly often), I use Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing technique to cut through all the mental gymnastics and listen to what my body is saying. I used it the first time I met Laura to see if she was the right person for me and got…

Laura’s Poem

Let us lie down together holding hands, looking in to one another’s soul. There is a real beauty there, an understanding in the eyes that has passed between two women like never before. Dared I dream of you? Never would I even know how. But you magically appeared. If I wake up, will you still…

Tree Love

  Washington Sq Park – October 2013 

Lucky

Laura – I feel lucky. Friends sign up to help make my juices and meals on the weekends. How wonderful is that? Part of my recovery from cancer is realizing how well loved I am. People who I never thought would come to help have been here more than once. I must have given a…

Love

Saw a beautiful white dove in Carl Schurz Park this morning, the symbol of love and peace. While Laura and I wait for news of my mum, here’s one of the most beautiful ruminations on love – “If I speak in the tongues of mortals or angels, but do not have love, I am just…

the blanket thief

Laura is the most adventurous blanket thief I’ve ever dated.  The artful dodger of the bed clothes. One minute you are snug in bed and the next POOF! the blankets have gone.  She has three special maneuvers. 1:  The Hot Dog.  I am totally naked and Laura is wrapped all around like a sausage roll….

Moving in together

How do you combine 2 New York apartments into 1 when both are as tightly packed as ship’s cabins? We’ve no idea. Fortunately what we love most in the world is each other, rather than our stuff.  So here goes…