Making Home

Long love from an agile ruminant - If your interests are wide, energy endless, and passions strong, it is unrealistic to think another will care about or value as you do. Worse, their limp participation will disappoint both. We need not be identical or even fans of the same cool pop bands and entertainment as was required of relationships in grade school and university. We come together, but we must also have space to grow freely with separate lives.

Home as base camp, whether a mobile mountainside tent or modest countryside castle: a place of peace from which to plot further. Discord does not belong, whether active or passive, nor resistance, intrigues, or general negativity. We are attempting to build and arrive somewhere, yes? Or blowing everything up in a fatal attempt to prove it impossible?

Being driven by a powerful spirit necessitiates having a lover that can be tolerant of forces, whims, visions, possibilities, moments, and curiosities they will probably never appreciate or understand. There will be great and precious times together, but there must also be tolerance for the rest that must be done alone and acceptance for joys and necessities that seem incomprehensible. Trying to keep up will exhaust them, demands that you slow down or stop only frustrate, and by not welcoming adventures to taste their subtleties or desiring to attempt the daring, they will learn nothing and be forced to invent fictional narratives as clever distractions for all they are missing.

A man who loves you will be loyal and always returns home when his task is complete. If you take care not to extinguish his fiery essence, he will always burn with everlasting heat for you.