I'd do anything for a smile
Holding you 'til our time is done

I watched an old series a long time ago, and one particular scene always stuck with me.

A woman gave a speech, and in it she explained how her language does not have a word for "goodbye".  Instead, her people, in parting, use the expression "until next we meet".  Because, even if it's the last time they will ever be with that person, they look forward to seeing them, perhaps in the afterlife.

I don't know why, but since then I've always made it a point to never say goodbye.

When everybody loves you
You can never be lonely

My fortune cookie:
Courage comes through suffering.


My brief glimmer of happiness is already over.  Too short.  But worth the wait.  Someday, I'll find a real home.

There's something incredible about reaching a new level with someone.  When two people intelligent enough and intuitive enough collide, the result is.. indescribable to anyone who hasn't experienced it.  When you have so much respect for someone's skills, and they have so much respect for yours, that you can interact on a level above and beyond the norm.  When conversation becomes a dance between what is said and what's implied, and words are tools for both revealing and hiding, catching the other off guard, testing them, saying too much and not enough at the same time.  The interaction is breathtaking and dangerously delicious.

Two finals down, one to go.  The first, I barely squeaked by with, and only from serious help from an incredible friend.  Whether it was charity, or pity, or sheer enjoyment at sharing his world with someone else.  Thank you...

Home comes at the strangest times from the places you'd never think.  Had I always known, somehow?  It's everything I pictured and more.  Please, let it last as long as it can.