Clear and Kind

#1- I was thinking as I chopped food just now how clarity is kindness.  A guy asked me for a walk today. We walked around a lake and then he asked if I'd had lunch. (We met at 11AM so I had not), so then we walked over and had lunch.  We spent 2 1/2 hours together and the conversation was easy and pleasant. As we were wrapping up he indirectly tried to ask me what I thought and I started talking about the online dating site we were using.  I knew this could be a tricky situation, because if he wanted to meet again, there was no reason to say, "No." I know many "experts" and people in general tell you to give it a second date. At the same time I was neither particularly interested nor curious about meeting again and putting any more time or energy into this.  #2 - Luckily as we parted he said he enjoyed talking to me but didn't really think we were compatible and gave me a quick hug.  Perfect!  I agree. #3 - As I chopped vegetables I thought how refreshing and kind clarity can be. #4 - Most likely this will be the end for me for a while as I signed up for a 6 months subscription that expires in a week and I plan to take a break from online dating for a while. It was nice to end this meeting a more than decent person whom I genuinely wish the best for. I also learned that it sounds like he's had more creepy messages during his time on the site than me.  For example, a woman in Texas reached out to him.  He responded asking something about her being so far away and she said she would be coming to town to visit someone.  Then she said something like after a couple dates if they hit it off she could move here!

#5 - Topic change - Easter is not something I pay attention to.  However yesterday in between cleaning etc. I wanted to take a reading break and I currently don't have anything from the library. Then I remembered last Fall a friend joining the Peace Corps sent me 5 or so of her books. Some I've read. Jesus The Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran I had not.  And I should not be surprised to fall in love with a piece of Gibran's writing.  The Prophet is easily one of my top five favorite books.  And yet again I was still surprised to find a piece of writing about Jesus that stirred me.

I love this line when talking about Jesus giving sight to the blind, "Perchance blindness is but a dark thought that can be overcome by a burning thought (78)."

I just looked up on the Kahlil Gibran website some info about the book and found these words

"Now I, a Syrian, have lived here in America many years, and I happen to know two or three Occidental languages in which both men and women have written about Jesus. And there came a day when my heart cried out, and I had no longer the patience with those who, for generations, had been distorting the Great Man who had happened to be born by the grace of God in my own country, distorting His noble face, misquoting His speech, and turning His song of joy into a lament."

https://www.kahlilgibran.com/133-why-i-wrote-%E2%80%98jesus-the-son-of-man%E2%80%99-a-little-known-interview-with-gibran.html

Oh I didn't know I could fall more in love with Gibran. 

And I haven't gotten to this quote in the book yet, but it is on Gibran's website and I also love it!

"Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, “My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree”."