i like you

cynthia and lauren // photo by juli

on saturday i attended the wedding of my friends lauren and daniel.  it was a sweet affair with lots of music, food, and dancin'.  my friend cynthia was the matron of honor and toasted lauren with parts of a poem called "i like you" by sandol stoddard warburg.

it made me think of my best friend.

a few of my favorite verses...

I like you and I know why.

I like you because you are a good person to like.

I like you because when I tell you something special, you know it's special

And you remember it a long, long time.

You say, "Remember when you told me something special?"

And both of us remember

When I think something is important

you think it's important too

We have good ideas

When I say something funny, you laugh

I think I'm funny and you think I'm funny too

Hah-hah!

I like you because I don't know why but

Everything that happens is nicer with you

I can't remember when I didn't like you

It must have been lonesome then

I like you because because because

I forget why I like you but I do

See what I mean?
Even if it was the 999th of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
Even if it was no place particular in January
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again

That's how it would happen every time
I don't know why
I guess I don't know why I really like you
Why do I like you
I guess I just like you
I guess I just like you because I like you.

read the whole poem at ategato.

scenes from a life...

spring toes, by juli

"open your heart:

i'll give you a treasure

of tiniest world

a piece of forever..."

(excerpted from xlvi by e.e. cummings)

a poem

photo by hugh morton

my friend anna blaedel shared this poem via facebook and i thought it quite appropriate for easter and the spring season...

so, friends, every day do something 

that won't compute.  love the world.

take all that you have and be poor.

love someone who does not deserve it.

ask the questions that have no answers.

invest in the millennium.  plant sequoias.

hear the faint chattering

of the songs that are to come.

laugh.  laughter is immeasurable.

go with your love to the fields.

be like the fox who makes more tracks

than necessary, some in the wrong directions.

practice resurrection.

-wendell berry

this is just to say

i picked up these two perfect yellow plums yesterday morning and they made me think of this favorite poem by william carlos williams.

by juli