Love Notes for Reunion

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Day 13 of Love Notes! Unlucky, perhaps? [Correction: this is Day 14] The Wi-Fi is out and the internet signal at my house is poor. So we do what we can. The daily dozen are written below. I will upload and update with photos when I can.

Feeling so deeply connected today, my friends. Saw long time patients this week, with whom I have aged a decade or so. Son comes home for the weekend tomorrow for the first time since daughter’s graduation in June. We will have lunch with my college friend, visiting from out of state. Saturday we will attend the funeral of a dear friend from church who nurtured us both; we will see many old friends there. Then I will meet my grade school friend who is also in town. Social media and group chats keep me up to date on so many of the lovely humans in my life. And every opportunity I get to spend some quality time, even if brief, fills me to bursting with love and gratitude.

I wanted to capture that energy in these notes. I think I got close with a few.

Wishing us all the deep, fulfilling feeling of special connection from reuniting with those who see us, know us, and love us, all through the years. May these relationships be ever accessible, to pull us up from any depth, shine onto us in any darkness.

Photos soon, friends! 🙏🏼

  1. There is something special about childhood and adolescent friendships. When they know you as stupid youth and still love you later, that’s love.

2. Family. Classmates. Friends. Colleagues. The energy of reunions is the essence of togetherness. We commune in love.

3. So happy to see you and be with you again. Any time away from you just feels a little less bright. Thank you for being you and bringing your whole self everywhere.

4. You went through stuff together. Your memories are shared. There is a bond there that is yours together; only you understand. Recall it fondly!

5. No matter what happens or how many years pass, we will always have the us that we were then. It is a precious memory and a source of light and strength. Thank you.

6. When we see each other after so long apart, may we be fully present, body, mind, and spirit. May we drink each other in and feast on our love, feeding us both in cosmic connection.

7. We knew each other before we fully knew ourselves. We’ve grown up together, even if apart much of the time. Our bond persists and strengthens over the years. Love you.

8. I savor you when we are together. When we depart, I take an extra long look. To last me until next time. And when we reunite, it’s still as sweet and joyous.

9. The older we get, the more people we have known, the more chances we have to connect and reconnect to amazing humans! YAAAAY!!

10. How does time and space apart alter our attitudes? I hope for a softening, a lightness that brightens our perceptions and opens our generosity and love.

11. May your reunions with long lost loved ones fill all of your souls with the warmth of strong connection despite and resilient to time and distance. Hold on tight!

12. Even if the parting tasted bitter, may the reunion be mostly sweet, reminding you both of the connection that nourishes in Agape love.

    It’s connection. But that word just doesn’t do it justice. Communion isn’t exactly right either. It’s an ineffable understanding, a seeing and knowing of souls, a limbic recognition. It’s a universal, visceral, spiritual experience… and it’s not just human—we observe animals who manifest it. Maybe it’s an essence of sentience?

    Well, anyway, I hope I may have sparked and fanned it for some here. It’s too good to not chase every once in a while.

    Love Notes for Love

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    Bee Butt Friend. I have decided this will be a distinction of love that I confer on anyone who manifests the ethos. And I will continue to strive to do so myself! 😀

    The past week has seen me full on binge the Crowns series by Nicola Tyche. US Review of Books apparently calls it, “The political intrigue of Outlander or Game of Thrones with the magic and thrills of A Court of Thorns and Roses.” I’ve texted Friend Phara (who recommended it to me) multiple times a day (sometimes an hour) since starting the first book 8 days ago. Book Two began three days ago and I’m 88% through. I will hold off on Book Three until after the busy upcoming weekend, if I can manage it. Then we will FaceTime to gush about it together, and I will use that and all of my texts as notes for a future blog post/review of this epic, sweeping story.

    And because I cannot help myself, and I will positively burst if I don’t output something about it now, tonight’s daily dozen will all be inspired by these extraordinary books. Oh and I highly recommend the audiobooks–Shane does not narrate them, but Katherine Kennard, Connor Brannigan, and Zach Hoffman do a phenomenal job!

    My favorite books of 2024 and 2025 so far were Beastly Beauty and Never the Roses, respectively. This series further clarifies what I love most about romantasy, and also likely historical romance. More on that later.

    Meanwhile: LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

    1. OMGosh love makes (us) do CRAZY things! And life would not be nearly as colorful, joyous, meaningful, or deep if it were any other way.

    2. However you need to feel loved today, may the people around you deliver in spades. May you feel seen, heard, understood, accepted and FULLY LOVED exactly how you are.

    3. When we find ourselves challenged and/or even threatened by others’ words, actions, or ideas, may we 1) find safety, 2) breathe deeply and slowly, 3) withhold judgement, and 4) stand in love first.

    4. Is there an experience with more capacity, more depth, more simplicity and complexity than love? I cannot think of any.

    5. Rupture. Repair. Repeat. Love mends tears and cracks so the seams are where the art of life (is) strongest. Love on, my friends.

    6. Loving is risky, no? “No risk, no reward,” as they say… And loving is its own reward, in a way, also no? Being loved in return is, of course, ideal, but just giving is fulfilling in itself.

    7. Phenomenally, our hearts and minds can always accommodate MORE LOVE. It is an infinite resource and its well has no bottom. SMH Cosmic.

    8. When you feel overcome with love, what music fills you? I bet it’s crescendo without being loud, sonorous and light yet deep and resonant. ANTHEM-y.

    9. It is both vulnerable and brave, I think, to see, acknowledge, and express when someone else in pain needs us, and to go to them in tenderness. These are the moments of true connection. So precious.

    10. You know that feeling of total, saturated overwhelm by love? OMG I wish you this ALL THE time! What other energy could possibly be more nourishing?

    11. May you(r) love lead you always, ahead of fear, shame, convention, expectations, contempt, anger, indifference, and apathy. Cultivate this as DEFAULT.

    12. Love is amazing — It fills and lifts whatever container holds it — However it is required, it shows up and meets the need. It is reliable, versatile, elastic, and renewable. Wow.

    Hmmm. Some of these are good, but there is still so much more to capture about Love, isn’t there? I mean DUH. Like twelve little off the cuff notes could cover it. HA! How fun.

    Love Notes for Friendship

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    How did it take twelve days to come up with this one??
    I am surrounded by such amazing people everywhere and I marvel at it every day.
    Today was particularly amazing–at the gym, at lunch, over text, and in snail mail.
    Our relationships save us, my friends. Let us cultivate them with care and attention.

    1. Age Race Profession Country of origin Religion — Friendship can connect us across all of these boundaries and more, if we let it.

    2. From ‘On Friendhip’ — Kahlil Gibran When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

    3. Relationships evolve. Friends may come and go, and come back again. We can welcome and roll with it all. We’re all human. We all change. It’s all okay.

    4. It’s not gifts, words, or meals shared, necessarily. It’s presence, I think. Intentional attunement, attention, and resonance to energy. Friendship.

    5. Dear friends: Find them, be them: Kind – Generous – Fun – Open – Curious – Empathic – Supportive – Nonjudgmental – Loyal – Honest – Present – Accountable.

    6. I wish you friends like I have! And that is the best wish I can ever bestow, because I have the BEST f*ing friends EVER!

    7. May your people always be at your elbow and your fingertips, not only when you need their support in struggle, but when you celebrate everything good!

    8. We all need that one friend who will show up for us no matter what. No questions. No judgments. ‘Move a body friends,’ I think Brene Brown calls them. Hell yes.

    9. Bee butts. Eileen sends me photos when she sees them because she knows how much I love them. May you have at least one bee butt friend.

    10. I knoe you’re my friend because you are honest. I know you are honest because you tell me hard truths. And you do it kindly. Like I said, you’re my friend.

    11. This is exciting! We just never know when, where, or how we will meet our next great friend! It could be anywhere, anytime! AnyONE! How AWESOME is that!?

    12. I think we all need more collage frames to display all of those silly candid photos of friends being silly and joyful together, just being themselves.

    144 of 360 completed, friends! And I think this daily dozen project is going well so far! I’m still having fun, and my process efficiency improves by the day. The notes are stacking up, though. Still contemplating what I will do with them all after the month ends! Ideas are welcome! More tomorrow!