True Love for a Lifetime
This month's diary leaves me pondering the thoughts of love and destiny. I believe that true soul love is real, that we each have one who is at the core of our hearts and being. And, like most humans, I sadly have spent a great deal of my life denying and pushing away at times the love that holds me dearest. Because the awareness was too much across the chasm of space and time. This photo and letter I have kept over the years as a reminder of the love that is possible when we trust. It is taken from UTNE Reader, May 1994. The letter below was postmarked October 13, 1928, and the couple subsequently married. Their grandaughter Keri Pickett took this photograph of the couple for a book project. Together for 70 years, theirs is a love we all reach for....
Dearest JoJo,
I haven't one bit of news this evening. I can't think of even one tiny scrap of news to tell you just now, but I want to chat with you a while.
I wish you were near, so that I might draw your arm about my shoulder and snuggle up close. Someway, I feel just like a tired little boy who needs to be petted and loved just a bit. Would you do that for me if you were hear Dear?
I imagine you stroking my hair just a a possessive way, and Dear I DO SO want to just belong to you, and for you to just belong to me. Someway that would give me more strength and courage than any thing I know, and I feel that I need that just now.
I just KNOW that both of us would be in an understanding mood, and that our thoughts would travel along together without the need of words to express them.
That our ideals and determination each to help the other would grow within us as we sat there together. That each of us would resolve to forget self in the advancement of our partnership in life. That faithfulness, and trust, and loyalty and love would fill both of us.
I wonder if the desire for the fufillment of the little "dream" of mine fills your heart, too. Somehow I'm sure it does. Is that egotistical? I don't mean it that way, but I know you love me a little at least. God grant me that it may grow and grow until both our lives are filled with love for one another.
Sweetheart, someway I just want to say, I love You, in about a million different ways and languages tonight. It is an overpowering desire. How I hope you'll understand and that it will meet an answering desire in your heart as you read this and that it won't sound silly.
I love you, JoJo, I do Truly,
Your Blakey