Simple Self-Love Note

The way you take your coffee and the way you play with your necklace.

The way you like your hair layered.

The artistic movies you prefer over the Blockbusters that try to force-feed you the stimulation through conventional sexuality, loud noises and big budget violence. Finding the stimulation on your own feels much more rewarding to you.

The draw to art deco and the strange, all-consuming fascination with things from the past.

The way you're constantly amused and sucked-in to the present, even when it must seem mundane to others----even rude.

The way you always want to do everything and nothing at once.

How you're so out-of-the-loop with modern music.

Your deep connection with your dogs.

Your flighty creativity that you've made a special mission in life to harness and tap.

The way prehistoric creatures, stars and endless galaxies deeply soothe you and make you feel more alive than anything else. How the great expanses of existence make your problems petty, and help you let go. How thinking about dinosaurs and distant planets is more than a nerd-gasm: it's a coping mechanism. It's godliness.

Being authentically you in a world that favors conformity takes growth and courage.

Loving the authentic you takes even more.