Wednesday, July 18, 2012

PERSONAL/LOVE: MAKING ME FEEL CLOSER TO YOU

Billions and billions of years ago, before you and me and our planet, stars were burning themselves up, exploding in on themselves with more heat and power than we can ever fathom. And in those furnaces elements were created, the same atoms that would one day make up our earth. The atoms that make up us.

Sometimes it seems like there's an insurmountable distance between us. You're so beautiful, and kind, and good, and far away. But both our bodies have known the power of a supernova. We both come from stars--maybe the same one. And even though it was trillions of years ago, ligh tyears away, sometimes that makes me feel a little closer to you

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