thoughts on love.

This past weekend Kyle and I celebrated our one year anniversary of being together, and it got me thinking about how lucky we are to find people in our lives to love. People who will walk beside us, see us at those moments when our lives seem to be little more than a mess, and still help you look forward and take the next breath.

I've learned a lot about love from Kyle, but more than anything I've learned its simplicity. How the moments of having someone to just do nothing with, to sit beside on the good and the bad days, and to talk and laugh with is everything. To have a person with whom things are not complicated, when everything else is complicated is the most powerful kind of medicine.

All I can really say is that I am thankful. Thankful that none of us have to do this journey of life alone. That we get this miracle of intimacy in the forms of family, friends and relationships.

Thank you, Kyle, for walking beside me for this past year. You make my world so much more beautiful.

“I saw that he inhabited his own flesh as fully and with the same mix of wonder and confusion that I brought to my own. Until then I had half believed—though I would never have confessed it, not even to myself—that all others were slightly less real than I; that their lives were a dream composed of scenes and emotions that resembled snapshots: discrete and unambiguous, self-evident, flat… But in that moment he cracked open. I could see him—he was in there. He moved through the world in a chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled room.” -Michael Cunningham