"Who knows how to make love stay?"

"Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.

Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
- Tom Robbins

i love him.

more small words for it

happy new year! happiest yet, i hope.

indeed, mine has started off joyfully. love and music flourish, and other resolutions and requirements (health! work! rest! discipline!) are, if not being entirely met thus far, not yet entirely abandoned, at least, in heart.

new year's notice

co·hab·it [ kō hábbit ]
(past and past participle co·hab·it·ed, present participle co·hab·it·ing, 3rd person present singular co·hab·its)

intransitive verb

Definitions:
1. live together: to live together, especially without being formally married
2. coexist: to coexist with somebody or something else

Etymology: Late Latin cohabitare, from Latin co- + habitare to inhabit, from frequentative of habEre to have

"Several common reasons for couples to decide to live together include wanting to test compatibility before marrying, living with someone before marriage as a good way to avoid divorce, and/or seeing little difference between the commitment to live together and the commitment to marriage. But the three most important positive consequences and reasons commonly cited by cohabiting couples are: companionship, sexual gratification, and economic gain." - wikipedia

"i've never seen blue like the blues he drives, in and around and through me again" - tori amos

it's true. he's moving in. or more accurately, his things are moving in, as, it seems, he has been in for some time already. but now laundry is freely mixed, there is no longer any confusion around the whereabouts of "home" when it's referred to, and conversations on how to move furniture, and make room, come up sporatically and move slowly to conclusion. this there, that gone, this away, this kept, and i am seeing my home, which is full of many of my things, as malleable and breathing and happy for the new company. happy! what a small word for it.

hap·py - adj. hap·pi·er, hap·pi·est
2. Enjoying, showing, or marked by pleasure, satisfaction, or joy.
3. Being especially well-adapted; felicitous: a happy turn of phrase.