rejection letter

the first letter read from my first 30th Birthday present from dad and Jane

Research shows that spouses are more likely to share politics than personality traits, and that their views rarely change after marriage. This idea makes sense to Jacob. "Your politics are a reflection of your entire worldview," 

"In a world as dark as the one in which we live, as hard as our struggles may be, we still need to have that source of happiness, of companionship, to sustain us,"

Our politics are more than our voting patterns; as politicians often remind us, they reflect our deeper values, which affect how we relate to others and how we see ourselves. 

she's as sweet as tupelo honey, she's an angel of the first degree.

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” 

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.” 

We measure our hearts.

“A toxic combination...of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics...is responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible.”

Commission on Social Determinants of Health1