"You have my heart, but you also have my breath caught in my lungs. Each bone in my spine, each bone in my body, every muscle aches and surges with you. You have so much more than my heart. You have everything it keeps alive."
Anonymous
I went to Rome with Colin that evening. A few days later, he arranged for us to have a private tour of the Sistine Chapel. We lay on our backs and stared up at the magnificent fresco.
I told Colin, "One of his assistants wrote that he did all this standing on a scaffold that he designed. I had heard that Michelangelo would lay down when he grew fatigued. He didn't even want to paint this ceiling, but it stands as one of the greatest works of art in the history of humanity."
We lay there for a while until Colin sat up and decided, "Alright, now I must m
