"A Soaring Celebration of the victory of Love over Time."

Love After Love

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you.

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by your heart.

Take down the love letters from your bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

-Derek Walcott

5 days and counting lovies. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14TH. I can not wait for this movie. I've been waiting forever and a day.

i got this book December of 2004 from my dear friend Ryan. He said it sounded like me, knowing my love for all things time travel/tragic-yet-meant-to-be love.

How right he was.

Everyone I have ever cared for has read this book because i believe in its story so passionately. I had never read anything like it. I was enchanted. I remember re-reading it again for the upteenth time, and my then bf hadn't given in to my pleas to read it yet. I remember it was close to the end of the book and i was about to get ready to sleep. He read me the last pages and he cried {without even reading the beginning. He did after that.} He called me his time traveler wife.

in a later relationship... i remember a break-up where he had told me he wanted so badly to be my Henry, but looking back, he knew all along he was Gomez.

this book has meant so much to me. I love it so. as do many of you, so i know you share my excitement for Friday. To celebrate this long-awaited movie, i will share passages from the pages of Audrey Niffenegger every day this week. I can't wait to hear your favorite pieces, like this one and this one, from two of my absolute fave girls.

what better way than to start at the beginning.
What a lovely opening by Walcott, agreed?

*pics via niotillfem.