Congrats! I always look forward to your Sunday musings. How lovely to read about your wedding & good times had by all. May you have many more good memories!
Thank you for warming my heart this Sunday morning. I’m grateful I chose to read you first, before the news…perhaps I’ll reset my heart by rereading this after the news. Enjoy this precious day!
Happy Anniversary! Weddings really are snapshots in time as you so eloquently described. My wife and I will celebrate our 49th on August 7. We were both 23 years old. I can think of people at our wedding that I haven’t seen since. If you do the math, it was the bicentennial year, which was a BIG deal everywhere in the USA. We should have married on July 4! What were we thinking?
Realizing the 250th anniversary will be the only other “big” one I will ever see, and knowing what literal traitors, charlatans, idiots and grifters will be in power in our country then, grieves me greatly. Watching the sickness, cruelty, callousness and honestly depravity we all clearly see in our leaders, and yet ten of millions refuse to see it, really grieves me even more. I hope I live to see a “new birth of freedom.”
And you are 100% right on your Frost poem of course. That negative explanation sounds like a theological coming up with a tortured and wrongheaded interpretation just to sound smart.
My husband and I will also have our 49th anniversary on June 12th. He was 29 and I was 25. We bought our home right after that in ‘76 and have lived in it ever since. It will turn 100 in two years and by then, we will have lived in it half of its lifetime.
Our house was built in 1951. We bought it from the original owners in 2011. We have no plans to leave, unless we are forced to. It's nice to have that feeling about a house. Happy anniversary!
I agree. We love our original hardwood floors, archways, original crown moulding, etc. It’s warm and inviting. Fun fact: When we bought our house, our payments were $385 a month which included taxes and insurance. It was double what we paid in rent and we were panicking. 8 1/2% interest! If only our children could see those rent prices…
Thanks, Rick. Happy early anniversary! I'm hoping Trump is gone by the 250th, one way or the other. If it's true what Bismarck said about God having a special place in His heart for the USA, he will be!
Happy anniversary Greg and Stephanie! Like you two, from our small wedding party we’re the only couple who’s still together. For us it was the mixture of two very different cultures, Spanish and Polish. They couldn’t be more different. Beautiful poem. Loved the song as well. Have a very special day.
I’ll go for the Polish vodka which is superb. Having been there on holiday and being served vodka in restaurants like water in the US or the UK and not getting woozy at all, it became my choice of aperitif. The rest of the food is stodgy and bland. Spanish food is flavorful having the mixture of all the different cultures living there for centuries. Paella Valenciiana one of my favorites. Dancing, no contest. We top the Poles anytime. One thing that kept us together, other than loving each other, has been the love of classical music, opera, theatre, reading excellent books, traveling and a good game of bridge.
Happy Anniversary! and giving us a refreshing start to June and Sunday morning. Best regards
Thanks, Sara!
Congrats! I always look forward to your Sunday musings. How lovely to read about your wedding & good times had by all. May you have many more good memories!
Thanks, Jean!
Thank you for warming my heart this Sunday morning. I’m grateful I chose to read you first, before the news…perhaps I’ll reset my heart by rereading this after the news. Enjoy this precious day!
Thanks, Lisa! Not all the news was bad...Ukraine delivered a monster blow to Russia.
Happy Anniversary to you and Stephanie! The poem was profoundly beautiful.
Thank you, Silvia! I'm glad you thought so.
Happy Anniversary! Weddings really are snapshots in time as you so eloquently described. My wife and I will celebrate our 49th on August 7. We were both 23 years old. I can think of people at our wedding that I haven’t seen since. If you do the math, it was the bicentennial year, which was a BIG deal everywhere in the USA. We should have married on July 4! What were we thinking?
Realizing the 250th anniversary will be the only other “big” one I will ever see, and knowing what literal traitors, charlatans, idiots and grifters will be in power in our country then, grieves me greatly. Watching the sickness, cruelty, callousness and honestly depravity we all clearly see in our leaders, and yet ten of millions refuse to see it, really grieves me even more. I hope I live to see a “new birth of freedom.”
And you are 100% right on your Frost poem of course. That negative explanation sounds like a theological coming up with a tortured and wrongheaded interpretation just to sound smart.
Keep up the good work. Thank you.
I loved this story… this recollection of where you came from, your glorious day and just how far you’ve come. It’s all good❣️
Congratulations!! Wishing you 23 more years of health, happiness and prosperity.
Thanks, Gundy! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
My husband and I will also have our 49th anniversary on June 12th. He was 29 and I was 25. We bought our home right after that in ‘76 and have lived in it ever since. It will turn 100 in two years and by then, we will have lived in it half of its lifetime.
Our house was built in 1951. We bought it from the original owners in 2011. We have no plans to leave, unless we are forced to. It's nice to have that feeling about a house. Happy anniversary!
I agree. We love our original hardwood floors, archways, original crown moulding, etc. It’s warm and inviting. Fun fact: When we bought our house, our payments were $385 a month which included taxes and insurance. It was double what we paid in rent and we were panicking. 8 1/2% interest! If only our children could see those rent prices…
Thanks, Rick. Happy early anniversary! I'm hoping Trump is gone by the 250th, one way or the other. If it's true what Bismarck said about God having a special place in His heart for the USA, he will be!
What a special remembrance. Happy Anniversary Greg and Stephanie and many more. Thanks for posting that beautiful poem.
Thank you, Helen!
THEOLOGIAN not theological of course in my comment, sorry my proofreading skills are poor on my phone especially….
My eyes have gotten so bad I make typos on my phone all the time.
Happy anniversary! Thank you for sharing your memories with us. It sounds so wonderful.
Thanks, Christine!
Just beautiful, congratulations and thanks Greg.
Thanks, Wayne!
Another great visual, painted with words. ‘the cloistered monks in medieval times.’ Ha! And, yes.
What a FABULOUS, sweet tribute. Happy 23rd, Greg & Stephanie!
That last bit, tho… 🥰😭🥰
LOVELY photos, especially the last one! And thank you to [wife-] Stephanie for sharing you with us!! Happy Anniversary!
Thanks! HTML certainly seems like medieval history, no?
Totally… 😎😉
Lucky man! What a pleasure it is to recall the good ol' days. Congratulations!
Thanks, Dennis. Lucky indeed!
Happy Anniversary! Thank you for sharing that lovely poem.
Here's Mark Twain, the last line in The Diary of Adam and Eve, "ADAM: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
Oh, that's good, that's very very good.
Thanks, Ellen!
Happy Anniversary,may the day be a special one and the years to come filled with happiness.
Thanks, Old Man!
Happy anniversary Greg and Stephanie! Like you two, from our small wedding party we’re the only couple who’s still together. For us it was the mixture of two very different cultures, Spanish and Polish. They couldn’t be more different. Beautiful poem. Loved the song as well. Have a very special day.
Thanks, Rusalka! The Spanish and Polish combination does suggest to me great food and great dancing.
I’ll go for the Polish vodka which is superb. Having been there on holiday and being served vodka in restaurants like water in the US or the UK and not getting woozy at all, it became my choice of aperitif. The rest of the food is stodgy and bland. Spanish food is flavorful having the mixture of all the different cultures living there for centuries. Paella Valenciiana one of my favorites. Dancing, no contest. We top the Poles anytime. One thing that kept us together, other than loving each other, has been the love of classical music, opera, theatre, reading excellent books, traveling and a good game of bridge.
Congratulations on your Anniversary and thank you for sharing your wedding day story!!
Thanks, Callie!
Happy anniversary! We just celebrated 18 years a few days ago.
Many congrats, Jim! Thank you!