Farewells

Our last day here. The pain of saying goodbye—again! The emotion is impossible to rationalize—much as love is. Parting is simply an aspect of it, and contemplation of moments of togetherness in light of it are overwhelmingly painful. Our hearts don’t wish to experience it until some temporal distance has eased their intensity. Ultimately there shall be union, not in this valley we evidently chose to enter voluntarily…perhaps, who knows, to learn to value what, in search of lesser goods, we lost in the descent. (Florida notes.)