I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing inspires romance like Nature’s Best!
Musings shares a three-decade-plus romance (if such a thing is possible) which has aged in the way lasting, lovely things do. In this latest chapter, we have just returned to the states after thirteen months abroad and are finally empty-nesters. Follow our trail if you consider yourself a romantic, or would like to be one. START with “Love Makes the World Go Round”.
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Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder
“Here’s the thing on men—okay, I’m going to give it to you. All men think of themselves as kind of low-level superheroes in their own environment. When men are growing up and they’re reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman, these aren’t fantasies, these are options. This is the way men really look at their own lives. I’m not even supposed to be telling you this.” ~Jerry Seinfeld
Friendship is shared experience and memories, ritual and symbols, liking and TRUST.
Grace means giving away in maturity, what you once generously received from others.
The best Christmas gift is love.
Decide not to shipwreck. Just keep sailing.
In marriage, forgiveness is the only way up and out.
Marriage has to be organic: a living, breathing thing that changes with the seasons even as it remains constant.
Intimacy is THE most nutritious food for lovers – feast on it.
The sweet security of our children is both the DUTY and REWARD of a purposeful, passionate marriage.
Reinforce faith in marriage (which must be renewed every single day) by displaying favorite wedding pictures all over the house…
The trick to moving toward the brink is to hold on tight — to each other.
Love is passed down like genes through the generations.
If you love each other long enough, dreams come true one at a time.
Homespun romance is the most beautiful of all.
Making a beautiful life for a family grows the best kind of man.
No kidding! Wow! We think you look so youthful in that first picture. :)
Beautiful! (The scenery and you!!)
Mona – that is one of my all time favorite quotes!! I carried it around my whole mission. And the water is amazing – like glass. What a trip! Love you!!
Great quote and great tip! I noticed Kira pointing out beautiful things to Seth when they were engaged and saw how Seth admired her for noticing them. I started to notice beautiful things more and now point them out to Morgan. He appreciates it, too. :) The easiest lift is to appreciate something beautiful.
Beautiful pitcures and beautiful you.Love you, Aunt Ellenor
The scenery looks unreal and you look beautiful and happy.
Love, Moni, Glen, Julia
Absolutely BREATH TAKING! I believe the reason nature…affects our spirit so much…is that it touches our very soul…”divine” creation…a REMINDER of what we witnessed long before we came here…
I totally agree that NATURE can be a great influence deeply spiritual, symbolic and an inspiration specially for couples who fall in love and it is a brilliant life experience. I think is like a little ” housekeeping” with everything like mountains, rivers, plants etc. .. I think it can be also a fantastic ADVENTURE FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIES IN GENERAL. I love your pictures.