You like to watch, you say?  Hey, I'm not that kind of girl!

But you can STILL be a part of the Love Story!

You all have, in big and small ways, contributed to this beautiful Love Story that has played out on the screens of my OS page.  I've written posts, sung songs, written poetry and shouted from the rooftops over him.

When I started blogging here, I chose a name - Outside Myself.  My bio simply listed the words to that song by kd lang, which I will repeat the chorus of, although I know many of you have seen me type these words before.

"I've been outside myself for so long, every feeling that I've had is close to gone."

And that's how it was.  I couldn't feel.  I couldn't cry.  I couldn't love.

Many of you - a great many - encouraged me to take care of myself.  Some of you really extended your hearts and read all of my posts and understood that I was in deep despair.  You continued to provide loving and thoughtful words and I felt them hold me through some dark days.

If you've seen my posts over the past couple of months, you have noticed that my life has changed dramatically.  Someone recently asked me how I could have fallen so deeply in love so quickly with someone so far away.  

Well, it really wasn't all that quickly.  And I know for myself that the few times I've been in love, I've known within a month.  This has developed slowly, yet quickly, over the past maybe four months that I've been watching and then talking with this person.

He described our love best the other night (sorry, doll, but I'm stealing your words ~ I know you don't mind) :-)  :  "Delicate yet strong, overwhelming yet subtle." And that speaks of it perfectly.

If you knew him as I do (and some of you DO know him, by the way...),  you would see some of the beautiful communication we share.  Offline, it is, of course, far more exquisite.  There are no secrets - he knows things about me that I have never told anyone else.  He knows my insecurities.  He knows what kind of grapes I like, what the weather is for the day in my town, where I'm volunteering at the moment, how I feel about being an "old soul," and where I buy my lipgloss.

A real-life OS Love Story ~ it is not fiction. And I could never fathom something so beautiful to write it, anyway.

He, knowing I love swirly things and that my favorite flower is a lily, MADE THIS CANDLE HOLDER FOR ME!!  Can you believe it?! 

So my request is this:  I need some new, romantic music.  I found that due to my many loveless years, my "Soft Music" playlist has far too many love songs that are about loss and frustration and anger and loneliness.

I need love songs that are about the GOOD kind of love.  So, please, if you could give me some suggestions to add to my iPod, I'd SO appreciate it.  

Give me ONE or TEN songs - matters not!  Just something beautiful and romantic; something that speaks to you.  It can even be instrumental. Help me write the soundtrack to this Love Story.

Thank you, my beautiful OS friends.  You helped give me the courage to take care of myself in a way I never thought I deserved.

And thank you, B - you know how I feel about you, love. ~xoxoxo~ 

Here is one of my FAVORITES...it makes my heart soar...