Author: Melissa
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Pleasant chit-chat
He stopped in the middle of silence again. Not long ago, I’d need to ask “what is it?” cluelessly. I started listening too. Sounds like regular jazz. I tried to imagine what piqued his interest, but it sounds so regular. I tried to guess what his mind is focusing on. “No, I don’t think it’s…
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Easy.
“I love it. Now I can openly hate some people without feeling bad. When I was young things didn’t seem serious. Now I know, there are some people whose opinion I just don’t need to give a fuck. There are things that are just not right. I can recognize things that I just cannot agree with, and I…
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Chill
There’s always conflict. When the conflict dissolves, there’s a gap, an emptiness that’s not quite empty. Things keep moving. The gap is more like a dynamic interest rather than a null space. Sometimes things match. The space resonants. Sometimes things might slip off again just as easily. The space holds. It is stable and flexible. Agreement and perfect…
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Change
Now coherence is what has become of us. Friendship change and evolve, even for “best” friends. Love you even more, but less dependent. See the different routes we’re taking, but feel the same energy we’re gathering. Used to piss off each other, but now the problems seem minor. We’re all changing, and reversing who we were. We…
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Talks
When people need you they’ll find a way to squeeze into your time. Extra appointments between my Thursday evening bus ride home and the Friday afternoon flight didn’t seem possible. But “Breakfast time is perfect!” Arthur’s enthusiasm made me happy too about an 8am meeting. “I’ll just go to the airport with you! We can chat along the way and…
Nature Spirituality 