Love is...

I came across this quote in reading an article posted by a friend about relationships that are not on the classical escalator scale and what that means. I find myself making connections with people a lot more frequently these days, and needing to navigate these new relationships in which I want to maintain that connection and what it means to nurture a relationship from both sides. I wanted a place to put this quote so that I could return to it from time to time and perhaps allow others to learn from it as well.

“You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch- it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins…”
~ Jeff Brown

I find this quote captures the urgency that one feels in the beginning stages of love (or infatuation) and also gives credence to the longing and pining that blossoms and allows the underlying mutual respect, admiration and desire for growth and support to come to fruition.

Link to original article: http://polysingleish.com/2015/04/28/navigating-non-escalator-relationships/

Finding myself?

I've been making efforts over the last several months to find my true self. I have begun exploring what it means to be independent, independent from my relationships with others and my responsibilties and my "job". This effort has caused me to do a lot more thinking, and desiring to write about things in a place other than facebook. It occurred to me today that reviving this old blog may well serve that purpose, at least as a short term solution. I expect that this will turn into more of a journaling space than a well-written blog, but perhaps others may find some things interesting, and I am curious to see if in writing in the space I make new connections with like-minded people.