Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018!

Hey! It feels good to be back in the land of the living! I got the flu on Christmas Day, and had a very high fever that whole week, ugh! It was terrible. The week after New Year, I was still very low energy, and now I am struggling with a residual cough. It is a slow process the older you get, I guess!

Here is a poem I wrote some time ago, I just came across it and am happy it still rings true.

Untethered

to realize the thing you've conditioned yourself to never need

really does exist

and is actually vital

to find yourself lifted onto a wave so big yet so fragile

and the words you rely upon to express yourself won't come

because your soul is rejoicing and refuses to break the spell

to feel connected 

utterly intertwined

by the souls' delicate silver cords

to feel the jolt of a kiss

completing the circuit

that was dormant for so long

to be coaxed,

to surrender, and

to hear the voice inside your being

whisper so silently, now you are safe,

walls are not needed here.