Taking Time for Falling into Love

A Reflection and a Meditation

Together Effortlessly Waiting Patiently Sometimes interminably For harmony to find itself

Learning to wait.

Silence when that is all there is Unbroken Listening Curbing my enthusiasm Relaxing Finding our enthusiasm. Tempo, tone, timber, mood, color, flavor, texture, feeling Falling into Feeling into Opening

Opening to Ensemble; Playing together. Time and tenderness— Coming back to the moment, again and again Letting emotion come and go, wash over me, wash over us, wash away Learning to wait Calmly or not Again and again Interminably Whatever it takes so we are together, Sometimes moving in harmony Noticing breath Noticing balance Reaching out, into and through Touching each other. Being touched, sometimes deeply.

It's breathtaking Loving In this moment for no particular purpose other than the sensation of harmony Finding our way tenderly through touch, touching one another, being touched Connecting Smiles Tears Laughter Surprise Tearful gratitude at being heard No goal allowed to bury loving connection this time No form of violence, no forcefulness of personality, displaces tenderness this time

This was a time of tenderness.