Hello friend,
I’m closing out this year with a short reflection (and a little music). I hope this post finds you well. I wonder what this has been like for you. Sporadic posts with pictures, words, and rambling audio filling your inbox throughout the year. I hope you’ve spent yourself well, and I thank you for spending any of yourself with me. I’ve said it before, and I still can’t seem to put it into words. When I couldn’t sleep last night, the feeling of friendship became a poem. And the poem became a bit of a song. The words are below, and the very rough recording is included for my unexpectedly supportive paid subscribers. Take good care, my friends, I look forward to the community we cultivate in the new year.
Love,
Jessie
Falling Stars & Cloudy Skies
I fell asleep in ‘22 my dreams, they weren’t sweet loneliness steeped in despair a hopeless place to meet if you were there, I thank you, friend for sticking by my side it couldn't have been easy being taken for a Darkness Ride I've met so many along the way before, during, since, and after it's such a gift to think of you all in this garden full of laughter I wonder how, and care not why, life's turned out this way that right on time my heart is filled with humans with whom to play like my children, each friend's unique you each bring gifts to share and now, my friend, a gift for you, My Heart --- completely bare I love you more than I can say my friendship knows no end I wish I had time to describe to you what it means to be my friend we don't have all day, there's chorin' to do! so I wrote you this little song be patient, please, 'cause I'm scared to sing and play a note that's wrong Chorus: you fill my heart with joy you see me through my fautls it can't be easy (or maybe it is) I hope it never halts I hope to bring you joy I see you with no faults it's easy my friend, to call you that my love will never halt this is what friendship is humans being at play staying in touch and keeping up and missing the other each day I may be gone for a minute you might ride on a while though our paths may part, we'll all cycle through could be ages, or even a mile not time, space, distance, or death ever keeps us apart cuz you already know what I'm gonna say I carry you in my heart Chorus: you fill my heart with light you see me through the tears it might be easy (with you it is) I hope this goes on for years I hope to bring you light I see you, bring your tears it's easy to call you my friend my love, it knows no fear how it carries on is a ripple from us to them it unfurls the Wave of Friendship grows it's a big ol' goofy world it's inside jokes unbounded including them with us eventually, friend, you'll see there's room for All on the Friendship Bus our capacity to love grows together in a community of friends compassion opens hearts and minds in a circle that has no end from scouts, to sports, to churches between neighbors and strangers alike it's never been easier, or harder before, to turn "Nothing" into "Like" I'll wrap this up (how'd it get so long?!) no wonder the industry's screwed ;) it's all in fun, to tell you sun, my life's better thanks to you as we close the day, month, season, year the sun will set, then rise and wherever we are, we'll always look up for falling stars through cloudy skies it grows where we water it grows in our light it grows where we nurture and tend to Cultivate Community right A foundation of you, my friend, a song from now until then star stuff and all that jazz may it last, may it last folks come and gone like a needle and a thread --- nobody likes the D word, so I'll say this instead --- may it last may it last, and last may it last, may it last may it last Happy new year <3 Love, Jessie
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