{i carry your heart with me}

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

 

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

 

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

 

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

 

E. E. Cummings“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Through Painted Deserts.

A quote from one of my favorite authors, Donald Miller:

“And so my prayer is that your story will involve some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is that you story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learing to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting the climax and the resolution. it would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it? It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out. I want to repeat one word for you: Leave. Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed...Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons."

Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road: Donald Miller

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.

1. I love hosting. Dinner parties, girls night, anything, just give me an excuse to go all out and I will.

2. Finding new music and making cds for people gives me great joy.

3. I love putting together gifts. For birthdays, babies, weddings or just because and they will always include a homemade cd. One day I will be a professional 'gift-puter-together'

4. I love the finer things in life, but would give it all up in a second and move to rural Africa or Mexico. 

5. I would like to be a top executive and at the same time I want to be a stay at home mom.

6. I collect dishes and wine glasses, but only 2 of each kind-it's eclectic that way.

7. I want to write a book about my life one day. not to publish, just to have.

8. I  love to sing along to any Sigur Ros song, in icelandic jibberish.

9. I have a yellow car named 'Hielo'. It has been my dream car since I was 10.

10. In my life I want to visit every Latin American country at least once. 

11. My 'strengths' are: developer, arranger, positivity, responsibility, and maximizer. I think they fit.

12. I am just like my dad was in a lot of ways and I love that. 

13. I love my brothers. They make me laugh to no end.

14. My favorite movie of all time: Breakfast at Tiffany's. Favorite 80's movie: Say Anything. 

15. I love driving. It gives me a sense of control and freedom.

16. I am a girly girl that can also get my nails dirty, and tough it out with the boys.

17. I would move back to Mexico in a heartbeat. 

18. My favorite place on earth: Anvil Island.

19. I want to own a B&B on the water one day.

20. I love kids from babies to teens. "When I approach a child, they inspire in me two sentiments; tenderness for what they are, and respect for what they may become."

Happy New Year!