In those wee hours your faces filled my mind: ... Roland, who knows more about grace and dignity than anyone.
Oh my!
When Jess directed me to your post last night, I was disturbed, flattered and bemused. Certainly I was at odds with knowing how to respond.
We are such a bundle of contradiction. Part of me was saying "Yea - that's just another way of saying I'm aloof" - but no.
That I'm even in your thoughts, in the waking hours of your mornings, 7 weeks after we've met is most certainly flattering, and comparing your feelings about the other 15 men that have touched you recently (some of which I too have met and about whom your thought I agree with) also puts in perspective the words you've used to describe me.
Possibly your kind words were a product of exchanges that have occured on the political threads, or the administration threads here at BetterMost, as well as the few exchanges we shared in Alberta.
I'm thinking too that, to some extent, those words could easily have been attributed to you, how others might see you, how you affect others. What you've believe you've seen in others may not be very dif'rent from what we see in you.
You are a poet, a soulful one, a generous one and possibly a very perceptive one at that. So
thank you. and know that the respect and admiration in return, is at least equal.