#carmennoire

Your name has a persian origin, Roshanak, and a really cool meaning: the first part, which later evolved in latin and neo-latin languages, has a connotation concerning the color red, creating a connection with the red sky at dawn, also a window facing the sun, brightness, the coming of light. The persian name developed into the greek Roxane and the latin Roxana, then Rossana, Roxanne and Rossane.

She was cruel like the ocean. Always unsure. She watched the ships slide forward with the tide, closing her eyes to focus on the sound of the rushing water and shouting men. She let her anger drift away with the waves, breathing in the salty air, calming her frayed nerves. It was always like this by the sea. Nothing soothed her the way water did. There was something about the dry wood and stone of the town that choked her, made it hard to think, hard to hold a thought in her skull with any coherency. It was nearly impossible to separate the land from the sea in the blackness. The lights on the boats from the lights in the buildings, the torches in the rigging from the torches in the slums. All was a confusion of points of light, flowing around each other, disembodied in the void. Behind her eyes burned the disconnection, the grasping, reaching feeling. She needed to immerse herself. It was only when she was surrounded by the crashing sound of the spray against the cliffs, the nostril-filling briny scent of the docks, or the damp, echoing cool of the caves along the coast, that she could focus her mind to the task at hand.

  Words By Me. 

This Lady. This one inspires.

My lovely best frannnnnd spawned in the wee hours of this morning, after an epic 21 hour labour. She and her fiance` have produced a healthy, strong girl, to whom they have gifted the names Ava Harlow.

I am in awe. Of her, of him, and of my lovely, ma petite, my sister and best friend and confidant. She has done the most incredible things.

When I met her she came to me a little broken, a little run down, and with the barest brush of care and love has made such an amazing turn about, to kick life squarely in the ass.

Shit, I will just always be there for you. Every new chapter we open upon, whether it is together or discovered alone, I will support you and care for you and lean on you a little too.