Letter from Marvin 12-31-05

My Dearest Steven,

Your love can be seen and felt from miles, from continents, from universes and from heavens away. Where you are is so important because it allows me to approximate myself, know where I stand, know how much love is between us.

When you are, we are.

I have run to and from your love for over two years now. I have doubted the possibility of it and in equal doses been pushed into feats of bravery by it. Who knew but you that I was brave? In the light of your love, the lowest and the highest minds of me are illuminated.

Be one more kindness one more act of love always.

Thank you for Jafari and Phillip, your two brothers and now mine to make this, ours, these points on this map, these branches on this family tree, this, these arms, this example of love that you know I needed to see.

Give more people to each other. Connect the hands that are reaching out and through you.

And you and your mother and me and my mother and this world and the next and ancestors and honor and care taking and you know that my mother is your mother.

You are what became of you. We are what became of us. You inherited the ear, the story. Be the plot twist. You are not the first trickster, but you are the trickiest. Crack yourself up. Talk more out the side of your neck. Call people out by their archetype, by their history, by their spirit guide. You like that. Got that. Are that.

And all you have to do is tell it/yell it. There is a power that you collect in the archiving work that you do that you should feel freer to tap into. You got the spells, know the plant, know the plucking, know the secrets, know the source, use it to your advantage, knowing always that love is to always to your advantage.

And for my secrets kept and for giving them back to me when I was ready for them, thank you. From here. Which I realize, is closer to you, to love, than I thought.

Yours, and I mean it, I belong to you,

Marvin

Sunday, January 01, 2006 @ 06:29 PM