i chose to feel it and you couldn't choosei'll write you a postcard
i'll send you the news
from a house down the road
from real love...
i chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
and so ends the world wind visits. i could not have picked more lovely friends if i tried for the rest of time with all my might. the best memories are written and stored in my last few journals. thank you, world, for letting my space be filled by wonder. and for leaving little bits of it all behind as a reminder. i won't forget.

"as long as i kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. i knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. only when i stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till i began to drown. so i just didn’t stop."
- the poisonwood bible
“….our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more in the surface sense, dramatic moments." - truman capote, breakfast at tiffany's