there's nothing better on a cold shivery fall day in Seattle.

Neko Case is singing "cold and shiver, cold and shiver..." in her sweet longing voice on my new CD/DVD player and I'm looking out the window at the cold drizzle falling on my pumpkins and sunflowers. I'm thinking about last night.

It is absolutely incredible how the nearness of another human body can feel so...like heaven. Just all wrapt up in bliss.

Life's pretty amazing. There's so much pain, fear and confusion, there's times when it's simply overwhelming, so hard and everything seems completely insane and totally impossible to cope with. But then there are these moments when it's all...golden and glowing, so rich and so...just so GOOD. So much love and truth, generosity and tenderness, all wrapt up like a present in one sweet human body. and you think: "Oh, that's how it is, life really IS good!". You know you'll be confused again, hurt and angry again, probably even downright miserable again, but you know that life also has this inherent goodness, you know how precious it is.

People are amazing. I'm glad I am one.