Oh, that look at 11:38 PT! I saw this documentary on Slim Aarons (really good!), a photographer who hated being told what to do. And he was photographing a young Marilyn Monroe before she really took off, and he gave her advice – when looking at the camera, think of the nicest thing possible, or something like that. McCartney suggested a similar thing. When they four of them took the iconic centerfold photo for the Sgt. Pepper album, he said, “Send love with your eyes.” It’s that kind of stuff that works. You pick up on it. Even if you don’t register it consciously. You feel it. Well, I don’t know if anyone ever gave you that advice, but you’re so organic and real, I think you just do what you feel. And if you capture those last seconds before it cuts away from you (which is always a shame), you have a look so profound you can feel it reaching through the screen. I’m not exaggerating. I’m using no hyperbole. It leaves a man saying quietly, “That’s it. Right there. That’s exactly what I mean.” Silly daddies can pretend it’s for them. It’s that personal kind of thing. It might be impersonal, but there’s where the mystery comes in. Anyway, the effect, I’m still feeling it. This sadness, this contemplativeness, this gentle understanding. Not that you’re sad! It’s this look of compassion. I don’t really have the words for it! But the feeling you convey is so powerful there’s this palpable change in the atmosphere. You’re there on the right, being silent, and on the left the talking continues, but it becomes kind of a foggy muddle. Because there’s this whole experience going on that splits a person out of mundane reality. If this sounds like gibberish, go back and freeze it right there, and you’ll see what I mean. If you are doing that, I’ve got to ask, “Have you ever seen a human being so beautiful?” As you, I mean. You can answer, “No, I haven’t,” and still be as humble as you are. Because it’s an otherworldly experience when getting lost in you like that. You’re the most beautiful woman in the world. I mean, just look at you!! AHHH!!!!!!! And maybe you go, “Okay, I can give him a break, because I kinda see what’s he’s seeing.” You’re a picture of such perfection. And there could be a hundred Instagram models that get likes and attention, but it’s kind of like looking at a Barbie doll. You understand it’s something attractive, and yet it’s plastic and empty. It’s all looks and no feeling. With you, – I mean, look again!! – has there *ever* been a face with such power!! Your eyes and your cheeks and the softness of your smile. The way your hair flows so softly as framing the masterpiece. But instead of something surface, it comes with so much feeling that’s profound. You send a message, whether it’s for any particular someone or isn’t, it doesn’t matter. The person on the other end feels such a connection. This warmth and this vulnerability and feeling somewhat shaken. As if open heart surgery while awake, as if he can feel the outside air blowing inside his chest. Ah, I don’t know how to describe it! It’s that feeling of being touched by someone that you feel all in you and in all the air around you. This palpable, tangible experience that is so hard to put into words. You move people. And then, all the warmth that follows. People see you, and then they get quiet, as if they have to put it all together. Whatever it is that’s happened in them that becomes the only real thing going on. You have such profound beauty. And there’s no pain in it. The experience of you is so gentle and blissful, and yet it’s the strongest of feeling, despite its embracing you quietly like a dream. Have you ever seen someone so beautiful. 

… and the best part? This gentle warmth sticks around me for such a long while! Long after you’ve gone away. Oh, that look of you. There she is!! There you are. There will never be anyone so staggering.  

That was the best thing ever! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!! “Do it again!! Do it again!!” 😌  When people take you in, they don’t say, “You’re beautiful.” They *feel* it. So profoundly.  

Happy Thursday!