heavy traffic

“i want you to find risk”

give me life and more life.

give me outdoor patios,

string lights lining the grey sky.

give me restaurants huddled between homes,

hidden and secret.

give me cavatelli & broccoli rabe,

perfectly al dente.

give me eggplant & octopus

and tastes that tingle my tongue,

tastes i’d forgotten existed since the tucked away trattorias in my old tuscan home. 

give me conversation
inspired by love and life and sensitivity and perspective
seeped & soaked in gentleness & truth, not capture-able by mere fact.

give me words that shimmer
give me curiosity
& the courage of raw vulnerability,
the willingness to be surprised. 

give me passion

speckled with heart ache and break and the little roadblocks that open up to an open road, 

giant Milky Way full of possibilities. 

give me & let me give you
hospitality
the creation of an inviting, trustworthy space --
an atmosphere as much as a place.
a quality of relationship between unlikely combinations of people.
a creation of the intention, the spirit, the boundaries for what is possible**

i made a lot of mistakes
i made a lot of mistakes 

because that’s life right?

choosing the hard thing and committing to it. not really knowing how it will pay off in the end, but feeling that blaze in your gut. the one that says there’s nothing else like this. the one that says go. risk. risk it all. the one that says be scared. but do it anyway. do it afraid. just do.

**inspired by words of light from the on-being project