Sad for R

We are walking down the street, holding hands. There's a play-ground at the end of the block and I run to the swings and climb on, and Henry takes the one next to me, facing the opposite direction, and we swing higher and higher, passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast it seems like we're going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perffection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

- The Time Traveler's Wife (page 240)

I wrote this excerpt on my blog years ago. Maybe 2006.
Maybe I'm sad for R.