You're Perfect.

If you're having a rough day, I invite you to watch.  It brought me to tears.  This person does something beautiful and selfless for so many.  It is so beautiful and earnest and amazing.  The end of the video beautifully sums up much of what's behind my personal spiritual beliefs and many of my life's practices.

And everything answered.

Romantic Street Art.

As someone with a fundamental problem with authority, and as a hopeful romantic, these signs make me exquisitely happy.  I love the idea that someone has so much love that they have to paint it all across public spaces.  It is an important step towards autonomy and toward reclaiming our world, our public spaces and our lives in the name of love.  What's better than that?  Nothing, that's what.

From the internet.
 

From in front of my house!  We woke up one morning, and it was right there, right below our front gate.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

A somewhat oldie at this point, but I am having a crazy love affair with them. 

It makes me want to skip down the street jubilantly and unabashedly.

"Home is wherever I'm with you."  Oh, yes.

Polaroid.

Dan, my partner, gave this to my a couple of months after we started dating, in my Valentine’s Day card (2008).  It’s one of my most prized and treasured mementos.  Every time I look at it, it catches my heart.  He is so the cutest.

(Taken at the SFNLG office.  Learn about the work the San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild does here.)