Natasha AND DJ / Intimate Elopement
They met as children in school and exchanged innocent letters. None of them knew that these cards were the beginning to their story. Fifteen years later, Natasha found one of the letters as she was rummaging through old things and decided to contact Dj, far from imagining what this simple gesture would do. In 2015 they spent time together and finally the distance that separated the two showed what their hearts had known for a long time. They belong together. The innocent school love was traded for a supportive, constantly growing and developing relationship. A kind of love that leaves room for both of their personalities to evolve, unfold, and build a strong foundation together.
Love is not condescension, never that, nor books,
nor any marking on paper, nor what people say of each other.
Love is a tree with branches reaching into eternity,
and roots set deep in eternity, and no trunk.
Have you seen it? The mind cannot. Your desiring cannot.
The longing you feel for this love comes from inside you.
When you become the friend,
your longing will be as the man in the ocean
who holds to a piece of wood.
Eventually wood, man, and ocean
become one swaying being.
— Rumi
All photos are by Isabel Nao.
