### important corrolaries: - let others treat you the way you would treat others ### not everyone has to be a performer if you need to open up a flower in your two cupped hands and give it to someone, do that in whatever way you want to, in whatever way you can, because you need to do that, we need to do this for each other and that is the bottom line (it’s not about having to be good at something) yeah, but—if what you needed was allowed—but only if you went on stage—would you go on stage? 1. you turned into an adult overnight (when you were about 9, and then all over again a couple years ago); 2. you have depths unknown even to yourself—you’re the midnight blue of the gulf of mexico with the sun skating in 3. you make me laugh and my heart get warm, you’re a geode, an animated spring 4. you’re a do-er and a giver, an elegant chipmunk all. i love you and i’m proud of you and you’re fucking gorgeous and the four of you will always be the constellation by which i navigate through the darkest nights