“Because love becomes more than celebrating each other’s bodies, doing the dishes, going to work each day or watching the sunset. It becomes a holy quest to become a being radiant with light and goodness. That kind of love draws beauty from each of you and pushes against the chaos of modern life.”
Beautifully written as always. I don’t have anything to add only that your words have added value to my life.
Having spent time in your home watching the two of you - there is a sense of oneness with you in your differences - like two differing parts of a machine that only works when both unique parts are providing that for which they were designed. You just FIT.
Happy Anniversary! When is/was it? Forty years . . . the Biblical number for testing . . . good for you two on the "Pass/Fail" test, of which some days are "A"s and some days are "F"s, and there are so many, many days "in between."
COVID 19 crashed our "Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary!" party that we had planned a year for, and our "Honeymoon Town" of San Diego, California, was practically boarded up shut with our reservations for the Hyatt Manchester Grand Hotel on the San Diego Bay canceled two weeks before and the usually bustling town looking like a post-apocalyptic ghost down when we visited on our actual anniversary of May 17th. Mercifully, our little weekend getaway in the mountains outside of San Diego was still relatively open for people, and we got the "Honeymoon Cottage" at the Julian Gold Rush Hotel in Julian, California, built a hundred years ago on the Butterfield Stagecoach line in an Old West gold and silver mining camp by a freed African American slave for his beautiful bride in a mixed community of Anglos, Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans all living in relative peace with one another at the tail end of the nineteenth century.
Karen and I hope that you and Bruce get to have fun celebrating your 40 years of wedded bliss!
Okay. I'll be honest. It was really 39 years, but for the sake of the radio post I rounded it up. That's so true about some days being A's, some F's and many in between days. And this was a month ago. We went to our local Italian restaurant where we celebrate those big days.
Oh no on Covid 19 crashing your 40th wedding anniversary party. What a wonderful way to celebrate despite Covid shutting down San Diego.
Well, fly out west next year, Katie, and we'll take you two up to Julian, California, now surrounded by apple orchards and grape vineyards. It's one of our favorite places in the world, not that we've seen much of the world, but we like our corner of it just fine.
Sell the farm and move Out West! There are no tornadoes here. You could get a place in the country outside of Yuma, Arizona, where we live for your horses, dogs, and other animals. It would be so nice to be near "family."
It’s beautiful in Yuma, Arizona, where we live from October to May. Only June, July, August, and September are very hot, but with A.C. and a swimming pool, it’s very bearable. We don’t even have a swimming pool, and we live here year round.
If you have the means, you can leave town for the summer to mild ocean weather of San Diego or the cool mountains outside San Diego where Julian is OR to Northern Arizona or the mountains of Eastern Arizona.
“Because love becomes more than celebrating each other’s bodies, doing the dishes, going to work each day or watching the sunset. It becomes a holy quest to become a being radiant with light and goodness. That kind of love draws beauty from each of you and pushes against the chaos of modern life.”
Beautifully written as always. I don’t have anything to add only that your words have added value to my life.
Thank you so much for seeing this quote and stopping by. I am so very glad my words have added value to your life.
Having spent time in your home watching the two of you - there is a sense of oneness with you in your differences - like two differing parts of a machine that only works when both unique parts are providing that for which they were designed. You just FIT.
Yes. That’s how it is for us. Very much so. Hope you come out and see us this summer! What a beautiful thing to say!
This is so lovely 😭❤️. As a relative newlywed, I loved reading this. Thank you for it
Thanks. I hope there is some helpful advice there.
Happy Anniversary! When is/was it? Forty years . . . the Biblical number for testing . . . good for you two on the "Pass/Fail" test, of which some days are "A"s and some days are "F"s, and there are so many, many days "in between."
COVID 19 crashed our "Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary!" party that we had planned a year for, and our "Honeymoon Town" of San Diego, California, was practically boarded up shut with our reservations for the Hyatt Manchester Grand Hotel on the San Diego Bay canceled two weeks before and the usually bustling town looking like a post-apocalyptic ghost down when we visited on our actual anniversary of May 17th. Mercifully, our little weekend getaway in the mountains outside of San Diego was still relatively open for people, and we got the "Honeymoon Cottage" at the Julian Gold Rush Hotel in Julian, California, built a hundred years ago on the Butterfield Stagecoach line in an Old West gold and silver mining camp by a freed African American slave for his beautiful bride in a mixed community of Anglos, Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans all living in relative peace with one another at the tail end of the nineteenth century.
Karen and I hope that you and Bruce get to have fun celebrating your 40 years of wedded bliss!
Okay. I'll be honest. It was really 39 years, but for the sake of the radio post I rounded it up. That's so true about some days being A's, some F's and many in between days. And this was a month ago. We went to our local Italian restaurant where we celebrate those big days.
Oh no on Covid 19 crashing your 40th wedding anniversary party. What a wonderful way to celebrate despite Covid shutting down San Diego.
Well, fly out west next year, Katie, and we'll take you two up to Julian, California, now surrounded by apple orchards and grape vineyards. It's one of our favorite places in the world, not that we've seen much of the world, but we like our corner of it just fine.
That sounds wonderful! It’s hard to get off the farm.
Sell the farm and move Out West! There are no tornadoes here. You could get a place in the country outside of Yuma, Arizona, where we live for your horses, dogs, and other animals. It would be so nice to be near "family."
Hmmm! It’s pretty hot. Bruce says, Wind farms. Solar panels. How does it get in the summer? What are the taxes like?
It’s beautiful in Yuma, Arizona, where we live from October to May. Only June, July, August, and September are very hot, but with A.C. and a swimming pool, it’s very bearable. We don’t even have a swimming pool, and we live here year round.
If you have the means, you can leave town for the summer to mild ocean weather of San Diego or the cool mountains outside San Diego where Julian is OR to Northern Arizona or the mountains of Eastern Arizona.
Just do it! 😎🥰❤️