Love is in the Air

January 9, 2017, the day was warm and sunny. And although winter had just taken over one end of the childhood playground equipment, it felt as though spring was on the high end of the see-saw.

Feeling inspired, Benny was compelled to create some wreaths for those people who had just removed their Christmas decor, and were needing something to replace it with.

Normally, he creates these items in our third car garage. He actually has a great little set up out there.

But today, the weather was determining where he wanted to be creative and the bright, sunny pool house with her nice, big windows and gentle breezes blowing through her open door, beckoned him to create a make-shift design studio within her walls.

I love his energy when he is creating something with his hands. He gets into a "zone". It is as if I am watching a professional football player as he runs into the end zone with the ball, or witnessing a skillful surgeon as he performs a life-saving operation. And though Benny doesn't make the salary of an athlete, and he doesn't save lives like a physician, what he performs when he is "co-creating and in-spirit" with the universe is a beautiful thing to behold.

What looks like a pile of random twigs, tulips, and glitter hearts begins to take shape as he carefully bends and shapes each stem.

He gently layers the different components of his creation until what was an ordinary flat base transforms into a fluid representation, in this case, of love.

He shares with me how this particular wreath, because it is a Valentine one, is going to have some flowing parts. He explains that the wind will catch the dangling hearts and the sun will reflect in the glittering picks in the same way that pure love does to our hearts.

"Love is fluid," he grins, "it moves, and breaths, contracts and expands."

It is as if he is hearing what the energy from this particular piece is exhaling into the room.









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I take a deep breath.

​I'm not sure how I got to be so lucky. I'm the one who gets to witness this creativity on a daily basis. I'm the one who gets to be the recipient of Benny's deep love for me. It's me who experiences the ebb and flow, the wind and sun of true love and who gets to reflect that back to him.

I smile and sigh.

He adds a bit of ribbon, ties in some hearts and embellishments, and holds up the finished product. 

She is exquisite!

Some home will not only be the owner of a beautiful door or wall piece, but they will benefit from the love and energy that was put into its very creation.

Her twigs and branches hold secrets that she overheard as Benny and I spent time together on that bright, sunny day.

We reflected on the many Valentines Days we've spent together. We discussed how this particular piece is VERY different for him as he usually creates things that are more subtle. He's not so into the glitz and glam that this piece represents. 

​And yet...

the holiday that supposedly reflects one human's amazing ability to find that other soul to share life with seems to call for a little glitz and glamour.

And so...this piece was created.

And she awaits her new home...

written by Paula 1-13-2017