Or dominate oneself without a mind --
So I remember springtimes more kind,
Like this...
Pieces --kept alive its mysteries, and now
Look back twenty-five years after , through
All the tears and laughter , another 25
Years from this dangerous future, where
Optimism,(thrifty); the sum is fifty, looking
Back, a half-century as only she could, watch
Me pull in...
#50 is a good number. Congratulations.
ReplyDelete50 years of marriage is indeed a good number. I do it every chance I get.
DeleteHow do these decades sneak up on us? Congratulations to you and your beloved!
ReplyDeleteThey just do, dear Susan. Good thing, too. Conveyed your congrats to Norma. Thanks!
DeleteWonderful! It is a Golden moment in your journey.
ReplyDeletePeace and Love and congratulations.
Thanks, Tom. Found her in a library, 1968. Love was unavoidable. Peace was strictly enforced by the librarian.
DeleteGreat, admire you both. May you have many more. Take care, my friend.
ReplyDeleteMost kind, Mike. I hope for more --a directive shared with several specialists-- and aim to make the best of them. You handle yourself with care too!
DeleteCongratulations, you youngsters! May you have many more happy years together. Of course you are still good, and she is too. Love sees the truth.
ReplyDelete0_Jenny, I'm an old man but still a young student of the universe. Norma is the strong one now and hasn't yet hoisted me into the dumpster. Y'think she loves me?
DeleteTime slips away. But you look as good today as you did then. Happy anniversary, dear friends.
ReplyDeleteI wear my hair a lot whiter and further back now, Bruce. But I was good then and I'm pretty good now. Let's stay pretty good --Deal?
DeleteGeo- my search for words of wisdom came up empty. Fifty successful years of devotion, respect, and love shines with the warmth of spring and harbors a special wisdom unto itself. Your journey together is an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteMy very best wishes to you and Norma always.
Dear Jon, thank you. When I found a partner who had all the strengths I hadn't, I thought: Oh no, not now, it's too soon and I've got the draft to contend with. Yet, and yet...she kept me stable. Still does. I wouldn't be anything near who I am without her --but she'd be better off financially. Life is at least strange, isn't it?
DeleteMy congratulations to both of you: I wish you many happy returns of your wedding anniversary! Both of you look phantastic on that photo - but I find older faces very interesting too and not less beautiful (though different) than young ones.
ReplyDeleteThanks dear Britta! Norma has always been lovely and strong, still is. I guess my face is okay but when I look down at my hands sometimes I wonder how wrinkled their skin can get before it just falls off. We old laborer-gardeners disintegrate little by little.
DeleteBut we create, Geo., we toil diligently knowing that it will be worthwhile, we plant hope (that the plants will grow), and we drink in all the beauty that comes from those little paradises we call garden: that is worth a few wrinkles!
DeleteBritta, I've never heard it put so eloquently.
DeleteYou found her in a library, checked her out and never took her back. Adorable. Those library fees will be horrendous by now so you'd best keep her.
ReplyDeleteDelightful and fun comment, Delores! I don't think the Library Swat team surrounds houses unless you horde books as well as people --but I could be wrong.
DeleteCongratulations to you both! Such a sweet and touching tribute to your lovely 50 year marriage Geo. Many blessings to you and your beautiful wife.
ReplyDeleteThanks, m'Lady, the top photo was taken around our 25th anniversary. We were in our mid-40s, in the thick of life. Looking at it now. from 70, I realize we still are.
DeleteCongrats! May we all find such suitable selections at the love library. As always take care and stay safe.
ReplyDeleteDear Mildred, you've nailed it. When I think of the union that emerged from that library and and all the children we raised...gosh, they seem like family to me!
DeleteHappy 4 u, friend Geo. Wishing u 50 more:) Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteDear Cat, love reciprocated with interest. Most kind. My marriages tend to last 50 years so far. I guess this one will last even longer.
DeleteWow! Fifty years. And a library! How wonderful! If you're not familiar with this song, you might like it: https://youtu.be/U5Es1flO_2M
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary!
I like the song, and sure appreciate the happy wish. I thought 1970 was a busy year until I got a load of the rest of them.
DeleteOh my! So beautiful, and I also love that hat, Norma! Happy 50 years done and all the years to come :-) xx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lisa. Norma most always wears a hat outdoors. So did I during my public gardening years --which is why I have any head left. Will relay your compliment to her. They've been a busy, happy 50 years and seem to be proceeding apace.
DeleteHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, sweet and wonderful dude and dudette! Only those of us who've been fortunate enough to make it to fifty years have any idea of just how quickly those years fly by. Or how much sweeter and deeper love can grow. May you have many more joyful years together.
ReplyDeleteThanks dear Susan. I am a great fan of 1/2 century marriage speed records but they don't go nearly so fast as the grand kids growing. NASCAR and ACCUS would have trouble calculating the speed those years go.
DeleteYou both look so content. I love that. Hope you always will be.
ReplyDeleteCaro Consigliere, Norma exudes a field of calm --not a visible aura or anything mystic. She just makes feral things calmer, like the wild animals she photographs, like me. I see no end of it.
DeleteBeautiful couple then and probably an even more beautiful couple now. Love does that.
ReplyDeleteLovely Arleen, Norma is beautiful; you are beautiful, but you two weren't kidnapped and beaten up by your older selves like I was. Yes, it sounds like a crazy, fragmented future --is anybody working on this? Love, however, is ageless. Good thing too.
DeleteCongratulations and may your have many more happy years.
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Thanks Jeff, we're working on it!
DeleteBelated congratulations on your 50th, Norma and Geo! I love the photos of the two of you and "Still Good." Wishing you many more years of happiness together!
ReplyDeleteMost kind, Louise. Best wishes to you as well!
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