Wednesday, 07 January 2009

• winter. (or: "is love alive?")

  chapter 2.

  have you heard "winter song"?
  sung by sara bareilles & ingrid michaelson?
  who by the way, should sing together all the time.
  they are better, together.

  if you haven't heard it,
  you are assigned to take four and half minutes now,
  to listen to it intently, without distractions,
  before proceeding.  because that song,
  is about, what this chapter, is about.
  
  it would not be a mistake to
  spend .99 cents at amazon or itunes to purchase it.
  it would not be a mistake to go to youtube,
  find the video and listen to it with your eyes closed.
  it might be a mistake to go to youtube and watch it.
  don't get me wrong.  it's very cute.
  very cute.  but i don't want you to get distracted
  in the moderately annoying cutesyness.  i want you to listen.
  maybe later, watch the video,
  if you want/must.

   

  ................................

   

   

  all i really want to say about that is this:
  sometimes it will feel and look like
  love is dead.
  and your loved one might say
  that they hate their life and they wish it was different
  and you might stare out your window
  and wonder if you are what they regret.
  
  things are not how they sometimes
  feel and look.
  winter happens.
  sometimes in a hundred little moments
  in one cold day.
  but love is still very much alive.
  
  and remembering that
  is all but crucial to
  sticking around long enough
  to see it.

  
   

  *addendum*
  perhaps it's worth mentioning:
  justin & i are very happy. solid.
  
  i am referring to the teeny tiny daily events
  that happen universally in intimate relationships,
  ours included,
  that might feel chilling, disconcerting, doubt instilling,
  gradually distancing, alienating,
  if not for the firm assurance that
  love was still living deep rooted and unshaken
  underneath everything.

  Currently The Hotel Cafe Presents...Winter Songs By Various winter song see related

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