Love

 Nature gives us signs of love in many ways.

Winter

Spring

Summer

 

 

 

Autumn

 

LOVE: an intense feeling of deep affection.

Love  makes the world go round. People love other people, animals, plants, ideas, or places. People experience love found, love lost, and the saddest - love unrequited. 

My blog today is about love. It's about my husband and me.

 

I want to yell it to the highest mountain. My husband and I are still in love with each other.

 

 

So what's our secret to stay married and in love for 53+ years?

Could it be that we respect each other? Talk to each other? And listen? Maybe, it's because we're also best friends, or that we care for each other? We've never gone to bed angry...no matter what.

 

Lately we've been discovering new things from our past together. How could that be?  The other day Tim commented about an event from our past as a married couple and I said, "I didn't know that."

I'm not talking about secrets, just tiny facts that passed our notice because life makes you busy.

 

 As I was preparing this Valentine blog, I came across something I wrote twenty years ago.

It recalls the first glimpse of my future husband.

 

I saw him that night in 1962. The music moved my friend and I, along with hundreds of teenagers in loops around the gym’s edges. All of us looking across the sea of faces wanting to be noticed, sometimes casually brushing against each other in hopes of catching the eye of someone new.

 

I passed him several times. Finally, I stopped. My friend stopped. He stood there with his friend and I stood there with my friend. Our two friends began to dance and without a word we followed their lead.

 

Barely able to hear the other’s words as we swayed back and forth, we were forced to lean close each time the other spoke. My cheek lightly brushed against his smooth, strong jaw; his scent was Old Spice. It was exciting. The music was slow and melodic as we said our names to each other. My heart raced. I wanted to stay close to him. And then it was over.

 

The music returned to loud and fast. We said goodbye. I continued my path around the gym searching and looking and aching to see his face again. 

 

Over the years, we've laughed, loved, cried, and rejoiced. We've held hands throughout it all. 

 

We have been blessed with five wonderful children and four beautiful grandchildren. 

So...Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. My wish for all my readers, friends, and family is that you experience love, a long love, a romantic love. And if it was a fleeting love, stay grateful you were able to love someone in your life, even if it was short-lived.