Telos+by+Mr.+Barra

Telos

What is a life?  What’s in a name?  I understand anxiety:  this feeling is unreal.  It’s a feeling to behold  The twist on love.

 Unconditional is my love  For our first-born life. She's still a sight to behold when she writes her crayon name; something that once felt unreal the source of some anxiety.

 Tonight rushed back the anxiety like an overcoat around a seed; a love suffocated by feelings unreal <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">This fear of a new life <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">This life in search of a name <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">It’s really something to behold.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Can you imagine or behold <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">the disintegration of anxiety? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">That feeling with no name <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">(an understatement is love) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">when in your arms a new life <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">makes real the unreal. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> The fear, it turns, was not unreal

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> but rather unwarranted, beholden <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">to dark visions of a stunted life: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">a supreme form of anxiety <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">overcome by blue waves of love <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">- and now this child needs a name.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> After all, what's in a name? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">A vision of a life unreal <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">for most, beyond mere attainment of love <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">truly a life to behold <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">like silken butter churned from anxiety <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">a poetic, courageous, remarkable life.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> She'll need a name to behold <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> to supplant unreal fears and anxiety <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">with a love poetic, an openness to life.