I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
“No one can do everything he or she would like in life. There’s just not enough time. Every person’s recreational time amounts to making choices that will leave out other opportunities. Why not select those activities you can share?” Willard F. Harley Jr., His Needs, Her Needs
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Contrary to passionate thought, the most romantic moments are the most peaceful moments.
Friday, November 12th, 2010
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not in my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.” Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Since ‘good intentions are never good enough’, make educating yourself in the art of marriage a predominant focus in your life– regardless of what “stage” you may be in. EVERYTHING ELSE (and everybody else) WILL BE BETTER FOR IT.
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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A content childhood in a happy hometown is one of life’s rare and precious blessings.
Ups and downs can be weathered–if you face ’em togethered.
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.