Welcome to My Beating Heart
(An ever-evolving, everpresent home)
Welcome to my beating heart, stripped open, bare.
Inviting like a shaded wood on a hot summer's day.
Here live secrets, truths, aching, and all of the brilliance of life affirming rhythm, cleansed with tears, and born again into the ether of now.
This place is sacred. If you journey here, be prepared. For your heart will swell too, and all those things - those topsy turvy, heavy things, that once made up your days and nights - will sift away. Making room, hollowing out, and sheltering.
Here, grow green the thoughts of a life fully lived, and loved - embraced.
Here lives grace.
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