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i’ve never been so in love like i am with ed kennedy 
+ how he sees beauty in everyone without being too sappy or sentimental; the beauty that he sees is not about his beholding, but it is the genuine truth of who he is beholding
+ how he always does the right, brave thing but never in a way that assumes self-righteousness or puffs up his ego; he accepts that the opportunities he has to love people are gifts, not accomplishments
+ how he says what’s needed in the simplest yet sweetest way, even if it is just silence

 “She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”
 the concept of being a messenger reminds of me of something marilynn robinson said (but annie sent me this quote and i am actually not that immersed in the literary world):

“My tradition would say basically, in its classic forms, that every experience, every moment, is a question being posed to you by God. What is wanted out of this moment?

Calvin, whom I love and other people disparage without reading, says that whenever another human being confronts you, in effect, you’re being confronted by God himself. And the question is not, what is your interest in this situation, but what is God’s interest? What does he want out of it?

And I think that idea — that reality is essentially challenging you continuously, what do you understand? what do you see? what do you understand as being required of you? so on — it’s a great alertness. And the idea that basically it is God that is posing the question very much exalts all kinds of experience.”