Fallen Empires

Hey bro,
Thanks for the poetry. For some reason, poetry seems easier for me to "get" when it has music in the background. However, I could follow your thoughts on Whyte's poem much more clearly than I could see it from the verse. As far as the hidden, the visible, and the gift, I have experienced the same in our friendship, as you have. The gift is both the the things hidden in you that become visible to me, and the things hidden in me that become visible by hanging with you. I am grateful that all the hidden things become visible and I find myself missing that part of daily friendship with you. While I have been able to follow the pattern of this with some other friendships, there is no substitute for the power our friendship (has) had to bring the hidden things to the surface.

The new Snow Patrol album, Fallen Empires, is released here on the 10th. It has been available in the UK for a month or so. They are on Letterman next Monday and Ellen next week, and it sounds like they will announce a North American tour, as well. I posted a song already but this new one is pretty cool, too.

"If our hearts are never broken,
well there's no joy in the mending.
There's so much this hurt can teach us, both."