Passionately passionate

I am listening to Luciano Pavorotti right now. He's singing Ave Maria. I thought it appropriate for this time of the year. My friend Gina Nicoletti sent this to me in a download one night some time back. We listened to it together online the two of us. I knew that she, as I, was crying as we listened together.

Only Gina would have shared this with me. Only Gina would have known to do so. No other friend or family member would have known how deeply such a thing would have touched my soul. Our souls.

We wept together, Gina and I, sharing something that only she and I could have shared in that moment. This touching of spirits through music. This dance of aural ecstasy. This passion, this musical climax floating tenderly in the air between us.

Gina my friend. Dear friend, from ages past. From youths not so much misspent, as misdirected and writhing in youthful angst. That time in our lives, I would not change, not one moment, for from it, and so many other layers of experience we became who we are today. In all the rich and textured fullness of our beings.

To say that I love you is an understatement. Beloved is closer. There are no words to describe my devotion to you and this our enduring knowing of one another in this lifetime. I am passionate in my loyality to you. My beautiful, beautiful friend. No friend or family member will ever know, nor share what we have known or shared with one another over the years. What we have is unique to us alone. It is not that our relationship or love for one another overshadows or lessons any other relationships in our respective lives, it is simply it's own beautiful unique experience of relationship with one another. And for this relationship I am forever grateful to the universe. What a gift, what an incredible blessing.

Next lifetime, let us start off less confrontational. Let us remember the lessons of this lifetime, let us start off loving and caring. I ask this as a special favor from the universe for us both. Let us remember Ave Maria... let the passionate flame of a past rememberance envelope us upon our first meeting. Let us remember the shared passions, how music touched the very core of our beings and bonded us forever.