Life is grand isn't it

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:09 am

I built a fire last night. With the help of liquid boyscout I got the soaking wet wood burning bright. The guy across the street and a few of his friends came over and we sat around the fire enjoying the "guy" comraderie I haven't had in a long time. When the rain got too heavy we went in the gazebo and played cards.

There was a woman too. She was incredibly charming and vivacious and she wore a shirt that revealed nothing yet suggested hidden charms. I was awestruck. I couldn't resist turning on the charm. I wanted to be next to her. I wanted to make her smile and laugh.

She was my wife! My wonderful, beautiful, precious wife and I fell in love like a moonsick teenager. She became "that girl". The girl I flipped my lid over nearly 20 years ago. I saw her for the first time every time I gazed her direction last night around the fire and the card table.

And no, I wasn't drunk unless water is an intoxicant.

And I FELT. Like the Colorado River after a spring thaw it roars inexorably. I FELT. I FEEL. Can anyone understand what it's like to feel when your emotions have been as dry as Death Valley for years? Pure, raw, unabashed feeling.

I hope this post doesn't violate any rules but you guys are my friends and I can't...I refuse... to to hide under a bushel. I'm gonna let it shine.

I want to run down the road and yell, "This is my wife. My soulmate. Isn't she beautiful? I love her!!!!"

She's my fantasy and my reality. She's my heart, soul, body and mind. She's all the lovesongs ever written. If she left me today it could not erase what I'm feeling right now.

It's raining outside but the sun is shining for the first time. HA! I'm feeling and I'm shaking and I want to cry for the sheer joy and I don't understand but I am loving it!

What the hell happened?

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:20 am

That's simply awesome, FC!

It reminds me of Colin Hay's Waiting for my Real Life to Begin

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:31 am

Wow, dude you have completely hit one of those notes!
im so jealous, yet proud for you!
keep that home fire burnin man!

jammy git!

and what a way with words! ye remind me a wee bit of some of richard brautigans words from "in watermelon sugar"!
keep her lit!

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:32 am

aw, Flydood, you made me smile.

Your wife is a lucky woman.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:32 am

Flyingcursor wrote:
What the hell happened?

You woke up from a 20 year slumber. Good on you Flydood (or, should I call you Mr. Van Winkle?)!

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:37 am

Don't these little epiphanies happen just before a huge tragedy?

djm

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:44 am

djm wrote:Don't these little epiphanies happen just before a huge tragedy?

djm

You sir are definitely evil!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:48 am

I was reading along and I was thinking, "Isn't this guy married?" and I was feeling sort of disturbed, like I really didn't want to keep reading. I was really so glad when the woman you were talking about turned out to be your wife! I don't know what happened, but if everything seems okay to everyone then who cares

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flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:50 am

Any chance of posting a pic of the missus? (in a wet shirt in the rain?)?

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:30 am

That is be far the best thing I've read in at least a week.
Who says the party's over when you get married???

Thanks for sharing--
Tom

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:41 am

Erm . . . how much of that liquid boyscout did you sniff?

Whatever the cause . . . congrats! You did remember to tell HER, didn't you?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:48 am

That's very sweet.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:05 pm

My thoughts:

Sometimes we all get so busy and we get this incredible forward momentum, the next thing, the next time, the next day off, the next weekend...

So much so that sometimes we forget where we are, what we have....even who we are.

Like folks on vacation with a camera, who often fall into the trap of being so busy trying to capture their good memories that they forget to have any, sometimes we get so busy trying to find the good life that we forget to live it.

And I am as guilty as anyone.

Thanks for this great post...my wife doesn't know why I just looked over at her and smiled softly, but that's ok, because I know for both of us.

You made me remember I am a very lucky man.

--James

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:50 pm

djm wrote:Don't these little epiphanies happen just before a huge tragedy?

djm

Don't listen to him!

You're lucky to have times like that. Lots of people settle for "not too bad". Been there. Done that. What you have is LOTS better-- trust me on that one!

(PS-- my wife is from Michigan too{as I gather yours is from your "location}, and I feel the same way about her. What is it with these Michigan women?

)

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:49 pm

One of the sweetest things I've ever read. Thank you for sharing it. Don't spend too much effort analyzing the mystery of the event...just hold on to it, with all your heart.

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