I smiled deeply tonight, through my entire body from my lips to my ears to my scalp, my guts, my hips and elbows, and through my knees, all the way down until it rattled the bones inside of my toes. A smile I have needed desperately for as long as I can remember. A few kind words, validation, acknowledgment, shared desire. A connection that has always been there in the shadows, lurking and tucked away but finally at long last exposed. It's exactly what I needed at exactly the right time exactly in the most incredibly uncanny way. And here it is planted firmly on my doorstep, unprovoked and entirely unexpected. I feel like that old RKO graphic of the giant antenna sending out lightning zaps to the universe, and at long last she's finally listening.
