Things I have learned in 2010: The love in my life makes me glow when it is harmonious (everyone said so, and I’ve never heard this so consistently. The work that I have accomplished this year has been some of my best, and it was all for my family and I. You can love people who aren’t blood like your family. Sometimes even more so. Faith is inside me, not in the clouds. Relationships are hard, my relationship to myself is harder. Family is everything. Having a family of my own is one of the greatest feelings I’ve ever known.…

I want to live, I want to give I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold. It’s these expressions I never give That keep me searching for a heart of gold And I’m getting old. Keeps me searching for a heart of gold And I’m getting old. I’ve been to Hollywood I’ve been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold I’ve been in my mind, it’s such a fine line That keeps me searching for a heart of gold And I’m getting old. Keeps me searching for a heart of gold And I’m getting old.…

I believe it was Heavy D who said “Now that we’ve found love, what are we going to do with it?” Nothing feels right and every possible avenue and scenario is fraught with complication, and as I continue to watch the days unfold all I can think in my heart is that we are here, together. We are meant to be here together. But how do we do it? Like blind pilgrims we went in search of love in the most unlikely places, with only faith in the intensity of our emotion and the strength of our connection to guide…