I’m watching a movie and paused to get this quote on ‘paper.’
“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
It’s by Rainer Maria Rilke.
And this is less interesting – I had to turn on the air conditioning today. Dammit.
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What is love?”
“The total absence of fear,” said the Master.
“What is it we fear?”
“Love,” said the Master.
*** Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987) Jesuit Priest ***
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A few days ago we passed a little milestone. It was the anniversary of our first date.
Now to some, it might seem excessive to remember such a thing, but way back when we first met, it certainly felt like a good thing to celebrate.
A lot has happened. Hopefully, a lot more will happen.
It’s been an awesome 26 years. I love you. Happy 18th!
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Thanks to a suggestion from Sammanthia, I thought I would check out Sprite’s Keeper. Jennifer posts a new topic every week and asks her readers to write about it.
OK, I’m going to give this one a shot. Not sure quite where it will lead. The topic this week is simply: “What if?”
If you’ve been around my blog a little while, you may know that I’m a bit of a movie nut. And I lean toward sci fi and action movies. Still, there is one movie that is pretty much the penultimate “What If” movie, and that would be “It’s a Wonderful Life.” (and no, I don’t really know what ‘penultimate’ means, it just kinda jumped out there)
What if I had never been born? How would the people I know be affected?
Now, I’m not nearly deep enough to write about not being born, but this is pretty close:
1982. New Year’s Eve party at Amy’s house. Senior in high school. And I met a girl.
I didn’t realize it at that moment, but I should have known – she would change my life. It was at least as important as being born.
We were set up on a date a few months later, then went to Senior Prom, and by the following Christmas we were engaged. A few years later we were married, and, well, the rest is history.
What if we had never met? What if she had fallen for somebody else? That is a scary question, for me. I’m sure things would have worked out well for her, but I don’t think I would have fared well at all. The bad thing is that on a daily basis, I take it for granted that this happened at all; I take it for granted that we’re together still, when almost daily I find that other folks I knew (and some from the same party) have married and divorced, or had serious health issues. We are a couple of the lucky ones.
Now what if I don’t get my act together now?
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