Taressa

[billy the kid]

I think you would prefer "felis". You still didn't tell me how you knew Virgil..??/

 

so now about lunch since I am working on this book, and no I won't use your name or say any thing about you, your answers have really helped me..( did I tell you I like to joke). so yes picture me looking upward eating braised spareribs with rigatoni and wilted greens, pondering love on a beautiful spring day in a meadow.

 

Love after a lovers death??? Well I believe true love lasts forever, and yes I lost a love Jan.1/77 I was over seas and she went to a new years eve party was shot in the face by a drug dealer. I still love her and always will.

 

I never did any thing with my degree, and no I have never had the chance to pet a lion, but I did swim with the whales in Hawaii, actually came with in feet of one. That is why I studied zo. well we have been having thunderstorms all week but we need the rain.

 

sooo now tell me, what are your thoughts on knowing someone and really loving them, yet never acting on your feelings, and not for fear, just that you are comfortable with your love for them and not needing more?

 

About Tony it's not a theory.... sleep tight and don't let the thunder scare the cats.

[Taressa]

Canem and Felis loved equally since I was raised with both.

 

"Love conquers all" was one of the classic quotes that made it into my mind and notebook sometime during poetry classes in college. Funny, I hadn't heard the rest of the quote before. How beautiful to hear it complete and in context.

 

So tell me, Billy.... Do you live near meadows? Do you have horses running near your home? Do you enjoy watching thuderstorms?

 

But on to your question.

 

Since we're assuming no fear in pursuing love, I will also assume there is no moral situation preventing the pursuit as well.

 

Although that comfortable relationship is something few people achieve even inside marriage I believe settling into that comfort can stifle our wills so that we stop seeking the best in life. I believe it is a compromise to settle for love at arms length when, pursued, the love might have been a true union of heart and spirit.

 

How sad it would be to grow old and to have never felt your mouth on hers, never have wakened in the night holding each other, never have shared the most intimate act of love together. To speak her name in death but die alone.

 

While I think the love you talk about is indeed a lovely thing I believe it lacks the exquisite beauty of complete intimacy and the exquisite pain of growing together through forgiveness. Comfortable love from a distance seems hauntingly compromised to the complete, all-embracing union it could be.

 

Now forgive the following quote because I don't remember it well and because it may sound a little hokey compared to the classics. From the old miniseries, The Thornbirds.

 

"There is a legend of a bird born to sing but one song. From birth the bird seeks the longest, sharpest thorn and upon finding it, impales itself on that thorn. And there, agonizing in that tragic death the tiny creature spends itself in song and the world stills to listen. For the greatest beauty is purchased only with the greatest price... or so the legend says"

 

In love and all things treasured, I believe the greatest is worth the cost. Comfort might merely be pleasantly veiled compromise if it prevents the greatest love.

 

You've seen love's good and bad so I ask you: What would keep you from seeking the exquisite beyond comfort? Could you be permanently satisfied in the relationship you described?

 

Good night, Billy. The cats did cuddle with me last night. I hope your nights are gentle as well.