The poems are very well done - if that's not gauche to say, given what they're about.
I am glad to read that, and glad that you shared them.
I remember that walk- an honour to be there, and to be friends and brothers.
"And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that the secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it."
So beautiful, Nick. I also feel like the first time I truly cried was when I lost my mum. Now that I think about it, it also felt like my eyes were opening for the first time. Thanks for sharing—I love this.
Thanks, brother.
The poems are very well done - if that's not gauche to say, given what they're about.
I am glad to read that, and glad that you shared them.
I remember that walk- an honour to be there, and to be friends and brothers.
"And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that the secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it."
- CS Lewis, the Inner Ring
Love the quote 👊
Something so transcendent about friendship I’d still like to work on capturing.
So beautiful, Nick. I also feel like the first time I truly cried was when I lost my mum. Now that I think about it, it also felt like my eyes were opening for the first time. Thanks for sharing—I love this.
Thank you - it is such a wild, surreal moment to experience, isn't it? I'm so glad you like it.
Thank you for sharing your navigation of grief with the world. Beautiful sonnets as well, brother.
Really good words! Especially the turn
Thank you Noah! Very much appreciate the compliment.