Today is special, but not in the positive. I’ve left my body on auto-pilot and my heart in a vault for a year now, only allowing in those that already breached the walls beforehand. It’s been a lonely year on many days, and an introspective one as well. Only by the support of true friends, distant and near, recent and ancient, did I make it through last summer, and only standing alone in a strange new horizon will I rediscover everything of who I am. It’s time to feel this heart beat again, and share my journey, but I won’t let my guard down so easily nor shall I give so much of myself that there is nothing left but ashes in the aftermath.

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• heartbreak,
• loneliness,
• love