Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

to love and to love deeply, to never give up on the things you adore , no matter how heavy life feels, to keep trying - because you never really know, to fight, to fight for whatever was made for you, and to drop the shame of everything that came before, because even the suffering, hold its own kind of beauty to romanticize the little things, to notice the morning sun as you open the window, streaming through your hair and catching the color of your eyes, to notice a bird's solitary chirp on a cold autumn morning to notice falling leaves , crunching rhythmically under steady footsteps and, to notice, swans gliding effortlessly across a quiet lake to notice ,children running - smiling, laughing, screaming in their soft , light voices to notice the old man walking on the outer edge of the street, holding his wife's hand so she feels safe to notice above all, the quietly persistent love surrounding you