Grateful Friday

Love .... given & received.

I love "love".

Tender little childish kisses & hugs given and taken by my grand babies.

The wonderful feel of little five year old arms wrapped around my neck.

The excitement of my precious Gabriella as she runs to me calling out "mimi, mimi" with her little face upturned for the ceremonial kiss.

The unconditional love & devotion of my dog - Chelsea.

The deep and "comfortable-as-a-housecoat" love between my husband and me.

The growing love and respect between my daughter and me through the years.

The fiercely protective love I feel for my grandbabies and children.

The supportive love of my dear friends.

The way love has changed from a dependant love to a nurturing and "I'll-take-care-of-you" love for my mother.

The many exchanges of love between my father and me in the last weeks of his life.

I am grateful for love in all of it's many colours, strengths, nuances and flavours .... the love from and for my children, my grandbabies, my husband, my mother, my family, my friends.

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved,
now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us -

I can live only wholly with you or not at all -

Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits -

Yes, unhappily it must be so -

You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you.
No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never -

Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves.
And yet my life in V is now a wretched life -

Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men -

At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?

My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day -

therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once -

Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together -

Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell.

Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine

ever mine

ever ours

Ludwig van Beethoven