Components of my happiness

This post is dedicated to the happenings of May 23rd.

Sara Bareilles - Gravity

Lyrics:

Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch. You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.


Set me free, leave me be.
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.


You loved me 'cause I'm fragile. When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.


Set me free, leave me be.
I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.


I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're
everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down.


You’re on to me, you’re on to me and all over…

Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too long.

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The rain was tailor made for me.

I am released.  I am finally free.

My nephew Seth's birthday was today.  I sat with all the adults in the safety of the garage, watching a half dozen neighborhood kids zoom around on bikes and scooters in the desert rain.  Laughter and sweet, wet dust filled the air with such a savory smell--I smiled.  This is what happiness is made of.

If he was always keeping me down, there's no reason I shouldn't be up.  Gravity loses its hold.  Freedom.

That is truly what happiness is made of.