Ode to Joy

It started to creep up on me about a year and a half ago. Slow, yet steady; a lengthening shadow across my field of vision. There was a tickle of the familiar, a vague recognition–that feeling of grasping the colors of your dream with the tip of your consciousness in the first, tiny seconds of…

Seasons of Love

Falling in love is a bit like staring into a hot, August sun. Blazing, shimmering, blinding. Those first heady days and weeks and months of wrapping yourself in the details of another, of mapping out possibilities, of taming butterflies. It’s like feeling the sun shine on your soul. Temporarily stunned by brightness and fervor, the…