Birthday

Today would have been my love’s 53 birthday. I have a candle burning for her.  I didn’t know what I would do to celebrate her and the 50 years she lived here, but I walked into my room and saw all our journals on a shelf.

Michaela and I had started a new journal where we were going to write back and forth to each other. Writings to capture memories, thoughts, and moments that meant something to us about each other and our relationship. So basically love letters to each other. We only got a few entries in it though before she got sick.

It has a quote on the front that she always loved. It is a from a poem, but made famous by it being used in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

Michaela loved music, but also felt living in our daily life was creating music. We each had this personal song weaving in and out between our mundane daily tasks and dreams. It tied it all together making music.

I am not ready to use that journal to write her love letters, but I do want to use the quote today in some art. My way of celebrating her.

I love her to the moon and back a million times and miss her beyond all the stars.