2023 is a momentous year for us. I will turn 65, retire, move to Fair Haven and celebrate our 40th anniversary. It will be a major shift in our lives. The greatest change will be our proximity to one another. We will find ourselves as newlyweds but actually “oldlyweds” with most of our time spent together. Major married changes take compromise this will be no different. I am early plotting, and she is late awakening peaceful. I am planning and she is flittering. I am constantly looking for meaning and she is naturally being meaningful. I am physical and she is emotional. I am often unstable, and she is always willingly a rock. But we have, over the years, also grown more alike. We are both highly affectionate. We are sincerely, personally, and deeply religious; we are infatuated with God. We are adventurous often living at the boundary. We need very little, a beautiful view, a bite of bread and fruit, and our warm bodies. We are committed to living, each of us drawing from the other’s strengths to be always alive. We are sentimental of one another, our past, present, and future. Now, more and more, we drive to the boundary where short ventures find us in the wilderness. We are, above all, wild creatures, wildly passionate being, rolling and settling stones, in our ancient years, together again.
Altar repairing deep in Appalachia. |
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