a blessing, love images

i wrote this in my notebook this week:

"When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see." (from where? i will find out, didn't write where in my notes)

i have also been compiling love images:

1. a pregnant belly being rubbed by a loving partner with coconut lotion
2. receiving three juicy letters in one day in your mailbox, from faraway friends
3. the room in which you were born, full of shadows and water and your parents when they were young, and alive, and welcoming of you
4. a poem written to you by your first love
5. planting violets in black earth with your 2-year-old son in April. . .
6. playing music with friends, eyes closed, listening to each other.