This Little Space in Between

"-Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it's not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring or loving because I can. It's just that, if I'm totally honest with myself, I think I'd rather die knowing that I was really good at something that I had excelled in some way than that I'd just been in a nice, caring relationship.

-I had worked for this older man, and once he told me that he had spent all of his life thinking about his career. He was 52, and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."

from Before Sunrise

Disappearance

I was sitting and watching the flow of the dance, listening the voices, and feeling the disappearance of everything but the moment.

It was a beautiful night from Miami.

Birds & Windows

Do you see the birds? How many windows do you have?

Downtown, Miami.

Breeze

A scene from where I lived in Miami. Thank you Kina and Jose.

Batu'm!

Miami

"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing."

Rachel Naomi Remen

Thank you Laura!