Open Your Heart

It's all heartbreak when you're truly aware; the joy of playing with a child, the first bite of a hot french fry or seeing a derelict at the corner who looks so badly used that you wonder how he's alive, or the broken heart of a profound love lost, or the silhouette of a eucalyptus along the highway in the central valley as the sunlight begins to fade.

Your heart is wide open until you can't STAND it (cuz it's scary to be that vulnerable, because when you were vulnerable before as a child or in relationship, you got hurt) and then you distract yourself with something, a story, a piece of gum, calculating the distance to your destination when you don't really need to or anything else that shuts it down.