First Date

Leaf 280 – Looking Back

 

One of the things I’ve discovered from having been married for a fair few years now, is how small and seemingly insignificant memories come to acquire a kind of patina of warmth, which one treasures all the more intimately within the everyday rhythm of one’s heart – much in the same way that diamonds are formed from uncountable layers unseen, accrued so quietly and serenely over unfathomable stretches of time. In that sense, I suppose, some depths of feeling attain something of the eternal – an abiding resonance felt far down, deep within our souls.

 

 

Happily.

 

Following her footsteps

all these years –

 

Remembering

the boots she wore

on our first date.

 

 

 

 

Photograph Credit: VII XI XXX/Rakuten & Randa/Rakuten