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Reblog: What Is Love?

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in 1 Corinthians 13, Attention, Attentiveness, Believe, Blessings, Commitment, Constancy, Courage, daily, Delight, Desire, Do Your Best, Empathy, Eternity, Faith, Faithfulness, Family, Fear, Fearlessness, Filial Piety, God Is Love, Grace, Gratitude, Growth, Happiness, Home, Joy, Kindness, Kismet, Life, Love, Marriage, Memories, Passion, Patience, Persistence, Resolve, Share, Stories, Sustenance, Sympathy, Teach, Tenderness, Thanks, Time, Trust, Weddings

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Our First "Walk" as Husband and Wife
Our first “walk” as husband and wife, wearing our stephana (crowns)

I originally posted this three years ago. Everything I said then still goes, so I am reposting it today, on our 37th wedding anniversary.
(And I still wouldn’t trade a single day.)

Today is our 34th wedding anniversary. Later this year, we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day we met.

We met for the first time in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art. I was there with my sketchbook, drawing the massive Gaston Lachaise bronze nude, an Amazon standing with her hands on her hips, surveying the territory (I really wish I had kept those sketchbooks). A voice behind me asked me what I was drawing; I turned and told him; we introduced ourselves; we spent the rest of the afternoon walking MOMA, showing each other our favorite paintings; he walked me down Fifth Avenue to the subway stop by the main library on 42nd Street. He asked me for my phone number, asked if he could kiss me. I said yes, we kissed, and that was it.

When I got home that afternoon, I told my mom I had met the man I was going to marry. Six years later, we did. Thirty-four years later, here we are.

See, Mom? I was right!

It all goes by so fast; one day, you’re seventeen years old, drawing in the museum, and then you turn around and you’re middle-aged, looking back at forty years with the love of your life and praying for forty more. Some days are interminable (days when you’re waiting for test results, days when a parent dies, or a job is lost, or you find out you have to move from a place you’ve called home for twenty years)… but how then do years fly by like torn-out pages on the wind? Every breath, every kiss, every quarrel, every walk in the park and movie watched and meal shared, every laugh, every tear, bridges that first moment, that “What are you drawing?” moment, with this one, right here, right now. These moments are tied together, and tie us together, like the ribbon that joined our stephana, the crowns we wore as we took our first walk as husband and wife. We have our crowns still, sewn into a linen pillowcase that I embroidered with our initials and wedding date, carefully tucked into the drawer of my maternal grandmother’s tabletop shrine. We wed at the same altar where my parents said their vows, almost twenty-five years to the day before we said ours. All these moments, and days, and years, all are joined and twined into a garland of life and love and joy and tears.

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And THAT is what love is. It’s made of air, water, flesh, earth, fire, time, effort, grace, joy, pain, grief, laughter, stubbornness, tenacity, art, music, dark chocolate, good red wine, and whatever else is important enough for you to feel compelled to share with your full heart and your open mind. It’s what we are here for.

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The Year of the Pithy

02 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in a better world, Abundance, Acceptance, Accountability, Advice, Anxiety, Art, Care, Caregiving, Change, Compassion, Confidence, Courage, Disappointment, Discouragement, Empathy, Epiphany, Fear, Fearlessness, Forgiven, Generosity, Gifts, Gratitude, Growth, Guide, Heart, Honesty, Kindness, Light, Mindfulness, Mother, Neuroscience, Pain, Passion, Path, Patience, Peg Streep, Pithies, Power, Regret, Resolutions, Resolve, Safety, Self-examination, Stories, Strength, Success, Trust, Values, Worthy, Writing, Zazzle

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So, I know you remember what my friend Peg Streep and I started working on last year. I talked about it here and here.

In case you don’t remember — We have come up with a growing collection of graphic quotes that we call “Pithies”. You know the memes you see all over the internet, that presume to give you advice or make observations, sometimes spiritual, sometimes psychological, and usually accompanied by mundane and cliched pictures? We wanted to reinvent that. We wanted to combine smart advice, grounded in neuroscience and psychology, with a spiritual bent, good writing, and thoughtful, interesting imagery. We call them “Pithies” because we are offering more substance than your average meme.

Peg does the writing, and I do the art and design. We hope you will enjoy the fruits of our labors enough to want to share them with your friends and families. VERY SOON, we’re going to be launching an online storefront with pretty and useful things featuring our Pithies.

Just to remind you what we’ve done so far, here’s a glimpse. You can see more on my Facebook fan page and Peg’s FB Author Page, as well as catching up with the other things we work on independently. You should check out Peg’s Psychology Today blog “Tech Support”, too, where she writes about relationship issues in the digital age.

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Happy New Year!

01 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Beauty, Blessings, Brotherly Love, Calm, Comfort, Community, Compassion, Courage, Creativity, Dreams, Excellence, Faith, Fearlessness, Grace, Gratitude, Growth, Happiness, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Light, Love, Mercy, New Year's Day, Passion, Peace, Resolutions, Resolve, Selflessness, Serenity, Service, Strength, Success, Thanks, The Universe, Trust, Truth, Will, Wisdom

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December 18th ~ Nature

18 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in a better world, Abundance, Appreciation, Attentiveness, Beauty, Believe, Constancy, Divine, Gifts, Glory, God, God Is Love, Heaven, Mindfulness, Nature, Ocean, Openness, Passion, Praise, Presence, Providence, Refuge, Rest, Senses, Sustenance, The World, Understanding

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October 30th ~ I Cannot Tell You

30 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Acceptance, All, Blessings, Calm, Center, Communion, Divine, Faith, Faithfulness, Glory, God, God Is Love, Goodness, Growth, Holiness, Life, Light, Listen, Love, Loving-kindness, Passion, Prayer, Quiet, Selflessness, Serenity, Stillness, Sustenance, Sympathy, Trust, Truth, Worthy

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October 29th ~ Creator

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Appreciation, Art, Artist, Attentiveness, Believe, Blessings, Blessings in Disguise, Care, Courage, Creativity, Discipline, Divine, Eternity, Excellence, Faith, Faithfulness, Growth, Guide, Heaven, Honor, Illumination, Light, Loving-kindness, Mindfulness, Pain, Passion, Patience, Power, Praise, Presence, Providence, Senses, Sorrow, Teach, Tenderness, Trust, Truth, Worthy

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October 18th ~ *I* Lead You by the Way That You Should Go

18 Saturday Oct 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Acceptance, Ask, Attention, Believe, Blessings, Blessings in Disguise, Courage, Diligence, Discernment, Discipline, Discouragement, Distraction, Divine, Do Your Best, Epiphany, Faithfulness, Fearlessness, Gifts, Giving Thanks, God, Grace, Gratitude, Growth, Passion, Patience, Prayer, Providence, Serenity, Service, Strength, Trust, Truth, Wait, Will, Wisdom

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October 17th ~ Godliness

17 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in Acceptance, Accountability, Attentiveness, Believe, Desire, Diligence, Discipline, Divine, Do Your Best, Faith, Faithfulness, God, God Is Love, Law, Light, Listen, Love, Mindfulness, Passion, Providence, Strength, Success, Worthy

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Sunday in the Park with Claud

28 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in All, Appreciation, Art, Attention, Beauty, Birds, Community, Confidence, Contentment, Creativity, Drawing, Fun, Geese, Gifts, Gratitude, Happiness, Memories, Nature, Neighbor, Neighborhood, Passion, Patience, Quiet, Refuge, Senses, Serenity, Shadow, The Universe, The World, Wherever I Go

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Sometimes on Sunday mornings, we watch a movie with breakfast. Today, we watched Tim’s Vermeer with our granola and apples …

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September 10th ~ Feet, Hands, Head

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

Posted by ckswarriorqueen in a better world, Acceptance, Action, Desire, Do Your Best, Duty, Faithfulness, Fearlessness, God Is Love, Love, Passion, Patience, Power, Praise, Prayer, Selflessness, Strength, Sustenance, Trust, Wait, Wherever I Go, Worthy

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