new measures

You and I measure time differently now.

We’re past the need for clocks or weeks or sand.

The way we track our time now, after all of our time, is with our hearts.

Our hearts and our time are stable and strong and sound; they are everlasting.

Our hearts and our time are the substance by which we will be remembered.

Together we’ve come this far in time with our hearts, but I’ve come this far in time because of you.

13 October 2001: I can’t wait until the second of this coming January. That’s when my employer on this work and his wife will have their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. It’s also when he gives her this little jewel. I advised him to take back the candy, cars and furs; these six lines were all he needed to ensure another twenty-five years of bliss.