We need a letter that's like i & u together for when we're doing stuff like this, he said & I hugged him & said a lot of people want a letter like that.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

Someday, I hope you
have a child fall asleep
on your chest & in that
moment, with the soft
whisper of their breath
against your skin, I hope
you’ll find the place
you’ve been looking for,
without any effort at all,
right there in your chest
where your child sleeps.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I sometimes wake in the early morning
& listen to the soft breathing
of my children & I think to myself,
this is one thing I will never regret
& I carry that quiet with me all day long.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

When I first met him,
I knew in a moment
I would have to spend
the next few days
re-arranging my mind
so there’d be room
for him to stay.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

We sat at the edge of the world
& you laughed & asked a thousand
questions
& later, at dusk, I carried you sleeping
in my arms & you woke for a moment
& smiled & said Today was my favorite
& I said Shhh, but I had to agree.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I’m not that good at being a tourist because I’m always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

he taught me to run high on my toes. I will always remember his words: run proud & remember you are alive.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

Today, for some reason, I see how short our lives actually are & how often I forget to look in your eyes & stop time entirely & say, You have made this life for me.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I read once that theancient Egyptians hadfifty words for sand& the Eskimos had ahundred words for snow.I wish I hada thousand wordsfor love,but all that comesto mind is the wayyou move against mewhile you sleep & there areno words for that.

I read once that the
ancient Egyptians had
fifty words for sand
& the Eskimos had a
hundred words for snow.
I wish I had
a thousand words
for love,
but all that comes
to mind is the way
you move against me
while you sleep
& there areno words for that.

(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I’m not here
to keep you
from the places
you feel you need
to go, she said.
When you’re ready,
I’m here to remind
you of the way home.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

the days go by
with so many little
things that don’t
seem to matter
until they’re
no longer there
& suddenly,
they’re all
that ever
mattered
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

Once, there was a girl who wanted to change the world & at first, she thought it’d be easy, because if everyone could see how beautiful it’d be, it’d take about a minute, but all the people she talked to were too busy to stop & listen. So, she went off & did beautiful things all on her own & pretty soon people were stopping & asking if they could come along & do that, too & that’s how she figured out how worlds change.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I never imagined that first
time I danced with you
would bring me here,
to this exact moment, where
everything I do, even sitting
quietly breathing
is a dance with you.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

I will always remember the way you’d laugh & clap your hands watching us play & then later, before bed, you’d gather us in your arms & whisper, Have you ever seen a world so perfect?
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

She laid on my chest & her breathing filled me almost to beyond what I could hold....
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

Sitting there in your pajamas & all the time in the world & if I could keep any moment it would be this: watching you & holding my breath with the wonder of it all....
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said, though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.
(~Brian Andreas, Story People)