I’ve found it very curious to see how people react to the idea of a $3,000 ring. Some people seem to think I’m selling myself short, and others think I’m selling out – they can’t believe that I would be so materialistic (please, have you seen my closet?)
Well, seeing that I can be a spendthrift and Chad can be a penny pincher – it took many long discussions to negotiate that price. In fact, we started at $2,000 a couple years ago and to increase the amount we could spend, I agreed to forego any birthday and Christmas presents for the duration. That was fine, until after a second birthday without a gift came and went. Without warning I started to feel resentment. I had baked my own birthday cake – he could’ve remembered the birthday candles. There are plenty of free gifts, after all. Even a card would have been nice. It ended in tears. My own naturally.
The next time I saw him, he gave me a gift he says he’s been working on since he’s met me. I thought I’d share them here – song lyrics are bound to become public sooner or later (and I’d rather be known for this song than the other one he wrote for me – “Knife Toes” which, I hear is circulating right now…)
Everything In Creation
You lean on me
As a temple breathes
As water is swallowed by seeds
There’s absence, collapse
Time that does not lapse
An orb that revolves in our grasp
Breath evading catch
Nowhere lost to find
Door’s that come unlatched
Opening the ever-mind
You’re the sound
That surrounds me
Of Everything In Creation
No harm, no alarms
Just a perfect
Reflection
(Just a reflection)
And the weight that I bear
Is like the burden of air
A challenge I’ll take everywhere
You’re droplets of sun
Constellations come undone
You’re all the love of loved ones
Breath evading catch
Nowhere lost to find
Door’s that come unlatched
Opening the ever-mind
You’re the sound
That surrounds me
Of Everything In Creation
No harm, no alarms
Just a perfect
Reflection
(Just a reflection)
