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Flag by Jasper Johns - 1954
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Like planets orbiting around stars and stars around the centers of
the galaxies, each time with you completes and then there is
tomorrow and the possibility of the next time with you. You are the
now worth being and the
future worth living
into.
You are a future of plain being (just because that's possible) or
of doing (which is never enough anyway). Being with you is always
enough. And when it's over there's still enough. The promise of
being with you again is life, love, reward, validation,
acknowledgement, and the challenge to be. Looking forward,
anticipation is de rigueur.
My once panicked reluctant thoughts and actions get focused and
committed and calm down. The present becomes distinguished not just
as now but as now preceding you. Looking forward to the next time I
can't settle for a mediocre now. I am alive in now driven by the
promise of what's next. I become naturally inquisitive. Indeed my
very nature is inquisitiveness. I do not simply inquire when I am
with you. I become inquiry. That's what's called for when
I'm in love. Anticipation calls forth the richer, preferred
perspective.
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