Love Letters

Love Letters by Jean Honore Fragonard

(ironically, this was the painting that I wrote my first Art History paper on ~ I got an A)

I was feeling sentimental last night - thinking of loves past, present and possibly future. Loves lost and those found again.

I came across the most wonderful site.....perhaps wonderful is not the best word, but I read a letter that was posted there and burst into tears.....

They were happy tears, the tears came from relating to something so very real and personal.....I read a letter that summed up my exact feelings about someone.

Here is the letter ~

ENTWINED, THE ENTIRE NIGHT, MAYBE LONGER

Dear _____

This is my first love letter to you, even though I'm not sure if I love you. Or if you love me. But if I had to guess, I'd say we do.

I want to tell you about our first night together. Yes, of course you were there. I'm sure you remember it. But I want to share with you the part that you weren't privy to. The part I found satisfying and symbolic.For every hour we spent in your bed, you held me. Somehow we were entwined, the entire night. Not for one moment did you let me go, out of your grasp, beyond your touch. It was as though the other side of the bed would have been a world away.I slept with my head resting against your chest. Like I had run a race and stopped to lie on the ground, with my face cradled by the softest, sunwarmed grass. The earth underneath, your heart below, beating with life.Each time I moved away, your hand reached out to bring me back. When a person is asleep can he know his arms are empty? How can a man far in one place summon love from another?I had forgotten how delicious that could be, to be joined not by words or thoughts but by flesh: soft, warm, heavy. When a sigh is a sentence and a caress a paragraph.So in return I offer you what comes out of my fingertips - my words.

They, and I, are yours,

the love letter collection

I love the irony of the human race.

We all try to pursue our lives, reject conformity, strive to express our individuality ~ and at the end of the day, we are all feeling the same feelings....making the same mistakes......celebrating the same triumphs.

If you are in the mood for some love.....check this out. I don't think you will be disappointed.