Leading With My Heart

By Andrew A Felder

Original reflections on new love, its flame, intensity and all-consuming spirit. Short, poetic expressions of heartfelt longing, passion and desire. Intimate expressions of tenderness and adoration, accompanied by romantic pictures. A wonderful gift for someone with whom you are in love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crest Publications Group
• Release date: Oct 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781685646295

Andrew A Felder

A retired attorney, judge, city manager and professor, Andrew Felder now devotes his time to publishing and editing The Network Magazine, an eclectic publication in which the humorous pieces in this volume have all appeared and from which they have been compiled and presented in The Best Diversions.

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Leading with My Heart

Loving Reflections

by

Andrew A Felder

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ISBN

978-1-68564-6295-5 (E-book)

978-1-68564-632-5 (Print)

2021 All Rights Reserved

Crest Publications Group

Fort Worth, Texas

Technical Director: Maria Tariq

Cover Design: Shumaila Rehman

Dedication

To a girl who can open doors with a smile.

I have never been a believer in ‘soul mates’, the idea that there’s one special person for everyone on earth. Perhaps that’s because that would render the odds infinitesimally small that you could ever find someone with whom you could find happiness.

What I do believe, however, is that you know very early on a relationship (often before there really is a ‘relationship’) whether you could be compatible with someone. It’s a basic threshold; it doesn’t mean you’re going to fall in love with everyone who merely gets over that threshold. Obviously, it takes more than that – a lot more.

But it’s a start – regardless of whether that initial attraction is physical, emotional, intellectual, or an attraction based upon humor, confidence, stature (how one carries oneself) or an occupational position. And at its start, it is always intense and comes only to those with an open heart.

Love is like a hug from which you never want to let go.

We speak daily. Not because we have anything to say, but because. Because we both need someone to say nothing to. And because we can say nothing to each other, and not feel like we’ve said nothing.  Maybe… just maybe… nothing is very important.

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Twin shadows in a windswept swirl

meet, in the glove of night’s eye

and stand, and speak in whispers from a pillow, and share looks that speak of love.

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Happiness comes from within

and wears a face

which shows that it