A Fine Frenzy, Almost Lover
Sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
One of my resolutions is to return to this space when it feels right. Which is to say…not yet. But eventually. The other is to be open to possibility. Constantly.
Wishing you and yours all of the very best things that life has to offer in 2013.
Love,
Stephanie
Beach Boys: “Auld Lang Syne”
3x5 - Live in Ohio, John Mayer
I’m writing you to
Catch you up on places I’ve been
And you have this letter
You probably got excited, but there’s nothing else inside it
Didn’t have a camera by my side this time
Hoping I would see the world through both my eyes
Maybe I will tell you all about it when I’m
In the mood to lose my way with words
Today skies are painted colors of a cowboy cliche
And its strange how clouds that look like mountains in the sky
Are next to mountains anyway
Didn’t have a camera by my side this time
Hoping I would see the world through both my eyes
Maybe I will tell you all about it when I’m
In the mood to lose my way
But let me say
You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes
It brought me back to life
You’ll be with me next time I go outside
No more 3x5’s