Learning, loving

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn…

– Chapter 7, “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Gift, answer; beginning, end

And God said, “Your gift will be silence.”

I asked, “What should I do with it?”

And I received —

The real blues (aren’t blue)

I know you've heard these words before
But really, I'd have to make a new way of speaking, 
A new language just for reaching down into that feeling 
Where you are.
Like when you search in the ocean and find
That patch of blue, darker, deeper than the rest
It's where there's the most of everything
It's where life and love thrives.
That's where you live in me...


Onaha, Okinawa

Spectrum

Breathing you in when I want you —

Sunabe, Okinawa