Hi lovely one, I hope that you are ok. I miss you – been for another walk, listened to a radio podcast about the Battle of Thermopylae and the Spartans. Then a bit on the theory of infinity. Always makes me think these things – the variety in mankind is quite extraordinary. My head is full of stuff – too much stuff really – things I should be trying to do to make me better than I am now. Yet I rarely get there – and that can be painful at times. That’s partly why I don’t sleep, I have a constant need to do more, and that’s where my feeling of being fundamentally lazy starts – I should be more than I am.

But… that’s where you come along – because you soothe that pain and show me a very very different path – a path that is illuminated by the radiance of your smile and the tenderness of your love. You make me stop and think about something real for a change i.e. you – you may not even realise that you do – but I look at you and I am just breathless, completely dumbfounded by your beauty and totally captivated. You just dissolve me into a pool of love and affection and all I want to do is to look after you – everything else somehow becomes irrelevant. And that’s why I feel the peace that you bring – you calm all of the noise – and I feel so much better because of it.

For me, you are the best thing ever – I don’t want to sound selfish, but it is very hard to pretend anything other than you are the most magical person and I am nothing but enriched by your presence in my life. And I do not want to let go – and that’s the other reason why I don’t sleep! (which is truly just fine with me, beautiful one)

I love you.

(PS just realised that this is my 100th post – just goes to show how motivated you can be once you have a new hobby – remember that is your job to explain this to the others…!)