If today is the last day of your life the one thing you want to say is that you showed up for life. You showed up for your dreams. You showed up for the people who mattered to you. And above all you showed up for yourself.
She stayed beside me until I slept waveringly brilliantly hooded in diaphanous scarlet and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS she exhorted one night and another night BE MYSTERIOUS Some nights later she scribbled WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK YOU LOSE THE POINT.