That's Amore

Last night, a couple of co-workers and I got together to celebrate International Women's Day. I took this pic from the balcony of Sens restaurant which by the way is worth checking out especially for the given view. The moon was beautiful. The pic taken by my dumbPhone though did not do the moon justice at all but you get the idea - it's the white dot over the Bay Bridge :)

While in Hawaii, there were a couple of evenings when the man and I watched the sky and listened to the sound of the waves crashing gently on the beach. One time we used the nifty app called Starwalk to identify the constellations. Initially though we couldn't figure out why the moon wouldn't align itself on the phone only realizing later on that we needed to change the setting to reflect Hawaii as the home base. Dinner? $15, Sarong? $5, Front row seats to the greatest show on Earth? Priceless.

warm and breathless and full of things we held on to

and the places that defined summer

start to melt together, the sand on our feet

and the bug bites too and the taste of every sunset

that slipped through between us

somehow each day was its own lifetime

we love and eat and the sun spun around us without fail

and every night we looked up at the freckled sky

we fell in love with the universe all over again

in all of these places, i could find a home in not having one

i will be counting the stars

for the rest of my life

sun-kissed ... star-gazed ... moon-beamed,

jakey