✸ 1.4.26 2:20am #243a42 #3b4163 #273431 Love is ever-present. Grief moves like the tides that surround me. There is extended tender kindness in all directions. I'm trying to take it, hold it in my paws, hoping that in time, I'll be able to see it in a still gaze, cast down at 45 degrees. Months gone buy rush up like a raged bull charging through a screen door. And it passes through me. Yet, I still see flowers. Ever-present. - - - - - 4:17am My god it’s really like this all the time… How lucky we are. ________________________________________ ✸ 12.30.25 4:15am Death arrives as a silent greeting at the door, a much quieter house, a divot in the crook of my hip left open, a routine forever halted. My god how much space you held… Still hold. ♥︎ - - - - - Touched you listened @teff ________________________________________ ✸ 12.25.25 1:17am #e9faff T a b u l a R a s a . #000e6e #ac743b Ragged fibers etched into a vermilion stone relax until its as tender as satin. Coming to life, a cathartic exchange flows underneath with lilting waves, yet the struts still ache. They will for some time. Stretching between the world and soul, exhausted tendons whisper to bone, creaking gently against the zephyr that fills lung. I wonder what it's like over there? #4b545b Elated, the diaphragm blissfully stretches for the first time in months as breath crashes down in oceanic surges. Sternum crags snap back into place. The ribs soften. Heart flows. Lungs release. Paws rest. Jaw finally loosens bite. All the leaves are gone now. The acorns nuzzle the soil. Sometimes I do too. The sun can come all the way down but if there's a good cloud overhead, I might get dizzy. t he r p e . Lord, u #ffffe8 bright It's Running running running through flowers flowers flowers. #dbe1fc #111777