JUST A PERFECT (HIGH CALORIC) DAY

Homemade waffles and blueberry syrup with brie and my two favorite breakfast (& life) companions. Sipping chai on a sunny winter morning and opening letters from friends and family. Wearing a favorite dress (complex geometries) and cape (vintage) and then out to lunch at Culina with Genevieve....mmmm, pulled pork sandwich with hot peppers and aged cheddar. Wandering around the perfume section at Holts and then to Swish to see if those vintage YSL pumps are still for sale (they're not). Later, pasta dinner with a lover and a movie date to watch The Road. And though it's a far from happy film, it does much to remind one that they feel love and are loved and that this life is brimming with such beauty and magic.

And I'm reminded of a poem by Diane di Prima:

Sweetheart
when you break thru
you'll find
a poet here
not quite what one would choose.

I won't promise
you'll never go hungry
or that you won't be sad
on this gutted
breaking
globe

but I can show you
baby
enough to love
to break your heart
forever