What is it you look for in the love of your life? Is it his eyes? Dark and soulful with just the right promise of mischief? Eyes that hold you in their very center, No matter what other distractions crowd into sight, Melting you with a single glance. Maybe it’s his integrity. The way everyone …
Another year flows softly by, like honey running silkily from greedy mouths, and hips and thighs. It is quiet in the garden of her soul, and sunlit gratitude bathes her world in shades of gold and pink. In this space between wake and sleep, she is queen, and she breathes it in, savouring every moment …
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What will they write of you, in the years that follow your life? Will they speak of you as one who loved, fiercely, even those who did not earn or deserve your adoration? It is easy, after all, to love your dear ones. But did you also hold your enemy in your heart, and wish …
I was so ready to plan our wedding day. It was the moment I had dreamed about since I was a little girl, and I just couldn’t wait to get started. The moment my beautiful Tiffany ring slipped sparkling onto my finger, I was raring to go, scrapbook and excel spreadsheets at the ready. The …
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JoJo & Cam I met Cam in India ten years ago, on a graduate training program with the company we had both joined; he was from Sydney, and I was from London. Our holiday fling turned into something more serious, and we decided to give long distance a go. After six months apart, I …
He picks her flowers on his way to work. Pink confetti rains down on his head, a secret smile tugging at the corners of his lips. ‘Who is she?’ I wonder as I pass him. Our eyes meet and a million stories swim in his topaz depths. I imagine her joy as he presents …
Dearest future mother-in-law, In just five months, I will walk down the aisle with one of the most amazing humans that I have ever known: your beautiful son. I don’t need to tell you how special he is, because you already know, probably more so than anyone else. What I will share with you, …
She looks at her. She sees her in all of her radiant glory. Her strength. Her passion. Her unique beauty. And the biggest tragedy in life, she thinks, is that she will never believe it. She tells her anyway. “You are beautiful,” she whispers softly, “In the way that the forest is beautiful in the first …
Rain drums on shuttered windows, a melancholy rhythm to our sorrow. The sky weeps with us in desolate abandon, screaming to a Universe that will not hear us. We are drowning in the hollow void of you, but we don’t fight it. Not anymore. I am unforgiving of the cruel world marching ever on, As though you had not …
“Sky above me. Earth below me. Fire within me.” In the twilight we drink tea, hold hands and watch, enchanted, as nature’s fireworks dance across the horizon. Electrical storms spiral like screaming tornados into the waiting ocean, and the sky blazes violet-white behind shifting storm clouds. We look up in wonder at a precious glimpse of heaven, gone …