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My Sister Sharon

April 23, 2023 To Jane, Burt, Mike, Angie, Wayne, Cindy and Heidi Your mother, my older sister, has always been a hero of mine. I don’t remember much when I was very young, but I do remember your mother always had friends over to the house, played games with them and laughed a lot. I remember one time Sharon, Roger and I went to the Tower theater to see Abbott & Costello Meets Frankenstein. Each of us had a very unique experience that day. I was hiding between the seats because I was afraid. Roger was upset. Why? Because your mother was laughing so hard. He had to get up and move away from her. She was the best laugher, even at herself. Many Problems and Solutions were directed at her, and it was like she was glad that others could laugh and have fun, even at her expense. My dad was not like that at all. He did not like anyone laughing at him. Which means Sharon took after my mother. I was 11 when your mother married your dad. She seemed old enough to me. And it was suc
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It Is True That Safe is Safer

It is true that safe is safer and the danger's in the risk, but what is there without the risk except safer? There could not be love 'cause love requires risking everything and everything's not safer. But everything is everything and who would risk it all? Only those that love and know that love is risking all.
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Mine Heart And Mind

Inspired by Shakespears's Sonnetts 46 & 47 You to me: My heart and mind are at a mortal war, As now divide the fulness of my love; My heart: my love thy love in me doth live, My mind: my love thy love in me I fear. My heart doth know that thou in me not lie, My mind a quest of thoughts that will not let this be, O that I could rid my mind of these and listen to my heart. Me to you: Between my mind and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other; When that my mind is thinking of a way, My heart in love, my mind, its thoughts are clear. Another time my mind is my heart's guest, And in my thoughts my heart doth share a part; So either by my mind or by my heart Thyself are present still in both. You to me: For thou not further than my thoughts can move, And I am still with them and they with thee, So by my heart, my thoughts no longer only in my mind, But also in my heart, and all my thoughts of thee. Now I also feel, the feelings causing me to know Not
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When Love is Love

When Love is Love Love, love changes everything / Hands and faces, earth and sky / Love, love changes everything / How you live and how you die . These words by Andrew Lloyd-Webber are no longer just lyrics to me because I now know that  love does change everything .  Add these words:  Now I tremble at your name / Nothing in the world will ever be the same.   My world has not been the same since the first time that I danced with her. She fit! We fit!  She was 17. She came into my world from the old country and I still tremble at her name and my world has never been the same.   Plato will have it that 'falling in love' is the mutual recognition on earth of souls who have been singled out for one another in a previous or celestial existence.  To meet the Beloved is to realize 'We loved before we were born.'   While I recognized her, and we did love before we were born, it is clear that rather than being singled out, we chose one another in that previous existence.  So muc
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Too Much Closeness

We live very structured lives and almost everything around us is structured, such as our workplace, our schools, our churches, even our homes.  We play many roles within these structures.  We are employees, employers, students, parishioners, wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and many more. As a result of this structure and our varied roles, we are losing the ability to connect to each other as persons. While we are close (as in near) to those around us within these structures, we do not often connect with them as other persons. This is especially true to those closest to us:  our wives, husbands and children.  Have you ever said or thought 'I don't feel close to you?' And yet it is impossible to not be close to those you share a house with, a bathroom or a bed.  So the issue is not being close.  The issue is a lack of intimacy, or the ability to connect as people. When we are intimate we experience others as people. We feel connected
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