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Friday, December 12th, 2003 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
No, not of the emotional sort (though more on that in a moment). I'm going down to Florida tomorrow to spend a couple days with my ailing grandparents while my dad is also visiting there. I'll be back Tuesday night.
Predicted weather includes highs around 70 (and, of course, thunderstorms), so I doubt I'll get to the beach or the pool, but at least it won't be the hovering-around-freezing Boston will have. And, also at least, this has forced me to get a jump on present-shopping. On the minus side, it means my "days-until-Xmas" count is effectively reduced by 4. Yikes!
About my last post: Nothing new or major triggered it, just lots of the usual sadness that I carry around with me these days (that was the point, really). My floundering love life (about which I keep *meaning* to write more but failing), not one but TWO of my relationships that are over but I can't bring myself to really let go of them, my fleeting youth, my feeling that I don't know which way is forward for me right now. It all occasionally gets me into a place of feeling terribly, terribly sorry for myself. :-} And then it fades back to a bearable level again. Which is about where I am now.
So to close, here's a relevant quote I found the other day:
"Love seeks above all intimacy, presence, togetherness. Not happiness. 'Better unhappy with her than happy without her' -- that is the word of a lover... Not even happiness is more precious to love than withness."
-- Peter Kreeft
Predicted weather includes highs around 70 (and, of course, thunderstorms), so I doubt I'll get to the beach or the pool, but at least it won't be the hovering-around-freezing Boston will have. And, also at least, this has forced me to get a jump on present-shopping. On the minus side, it means my "days-until-Xmas" count is effectively reduced by 4. Yikes!
About my last post: Nothing new or major triggered it, just lots of the usual sadness that I carry around with me these days (that was the point, really). My floundering love life (about which I keep *meaning* to write more but failing), not one but TWO of my relationships that are over but I can't bring myself to really let go of them, my fleeting youth, my feeling that I don't know which way is forward for me right now. It all occasionally gets me into a place of feeling terribly, terribly sorry for myself. :-} And then it fades back to a bearable level again. Which is about where I am now.
So to close, here's a relevant quote I found the other day:
"Love seeks above all intimacy, presence, togetherness. Not happiness. 'Better unhappy with her than happy without her' -- that is the word of a lover... Not even happiness is more precious to love than withness."
-- Peter Kreeft