red wine and confidence

a good friend -- and i say that with the utmost importance -- told me a story once about the importance of white wine and its compatibility. and i believed her. because she's spoken to me the most of the kinds of truths that aren't a part of the whole realm of misunderstandings or unspoken spaces that some of us allow ourselves to occupy daily and nightly. and so tonight, on this night of leave takings, i drink glasses upon glasses of red wine to the legacy and the truth of her and all the friends that have stood by me on so many nights of letting go.

i'm off for a few weeks. and then i'll be busy with a friend visiting from far away places. making posts will be something that will come and go when there is time and adequate silence for the taking up of words to pen and paper. but i will miss the lives that go on out there without me -- to dvd, to jess, to stv, to mrtn -- wherever life is taking you, to t.c., to that digitalbutterfly and her boy, to my biscuit, and to the rest of you who bring me so much joy always.

i wish everyone a very joyous holiday, and i hope that you spend it well doing the things that bring you love and peace and joy -- and that, mostly, we understand what -- at the root of it all -- makes us the most happiest and that we start living for that feeling as much and as often as we can.

I'll miss you.

--imogen