Lil, just after we spoke about it, I roasted some seeds. I think I ate the whole damn batch by myself. So far, we're up to 8 pumpkins and I can't wait to roast some more. With luck and willpower...of which I have neither, ha ha...I'll have enough for quite a while.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.