Querencia

I watched your shoulders relax as I came to sit next to you, running away from others who were bothering my friend and me that Wednesday evening in Kona. There you sat alone nursing your beer as I ordered another drink at the bar. My first thought was, "Wow, this guy is cute". I never thought that a connection would be created, one that would change my night and let me experience a perspective-changing moment in life. Conversation was easy. You were easy on the eyes. You were warm. You were kind. You were what I needed. And in that moment of time, we were responsible to each other, two strangers from the Bay attempting to find a connection in an uncrowded bar by the ocean. We laughed. We drank.  I sang. You were shocked. We kissed. Our body language turned into each other. I truly appreciated your presence, the way you made me feel, the way your warmth encompassed my being. There we walked on the beach, hand in hand, eyeing each other the whole way. We sat and spoke abo...