new light

I’ve been repeating to myself the following one liner over the last few weeks: May you love someone long enough to see them in a new light. It’s been profoundly grounding and, in some ways, aspirational as I think about certain relationships in my life. What an absolute gift it is to really know someone for a long time–their highs and lows in a year, what keeps them up at a night, what they are looking forward to, who the main people are in their lives. Having had some long-time friendships fade and fizzle out, I’m feeling the sacredness of those who have become my decades people, and I to them. To have the chance to see them come alive in new ways, to explore parts of themselves they never have before, to face questions I never knew crossed their mind has been extraordinarily humbling and a call to deepen/pay attention. Right when you think you know someone, you remember how often we are each born anew by life and invited into a new phase of what is to be.