Several months ago, I received this funny picture from a very special guy named Kim Smith. . .

For some reason, I got to thinking about it tonight and wanted to see it again and share it.

I wasn't sure where I had stashed the copy he sent to me, so I searched for it again using Google and found it--along with a collection of other amusing pictures.

Enjoy!

Original Funny Picture. . .

Link To Collection

How's My Love Life? Right Where It Needs To Be At This Time!

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According to the app. at Facebook called God Wants You To Know, this is what God wants me to know today:

... that a successful relationship requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Always with the same person, but deeper and deeper every time. Each time on a whole new level you together open in love and discover the truth of your beloved anew. There is no limit to the beauty of your beloved. If you think you've reached the end, stop generalizing.

and this was my initial response...

There are several guys in my life whom I've either, at one time, thought of as "the one" or else come very close in many ways. There are three of them at the top of the list right at the moment (one met in real life in 1990, one met online in 2007, and one met online in 2010). Those three fall under the category of "very close." In... fact, the first two were actually very, Very close--with the first of those two being very, Very, VERY close. Better in all of those cases just to keep it at being very close friends. In short, I think that this message (as applied to my life at this time) is about falling more and more in love with special friendships. Maybe, someday, it will also mean more when the right person comes along for whom I'm also the right person.

Then, I discovered that I had made a mistake and wrote another comment to correct it...

Oops! I meant the Second of those two being very, Very, VERY close (as in the one from 2007). Though 1990 IS a very special person. Of course, there's that one from 1977 who is to me what Charlie Brown's/Charles Schulz's little red-haired girl is to him.

 In short, I believe that special friendships are blessings in their own right.  They don't have to lead to the altar--or even to that first date.  It's just wonderful to know that there are such beautiful people sharing the planet with me--people so wonderful that they take my breath away and make me wonder (even if only in a fleeting moment) what it would be like to be like a pair of Canada geese mated for life.

When it comes to getting married, I want nothing less for myself and my beloved than the kind of love my mom and dad have always shared--where they're still connected and falling in love all over again, even though my dad passed away over seven years ago!

Picky?

Maybe so, but I believe in my heart of hearts that, when the time is right, that kind of love will be there for me. If not, I still will have had that dream.......

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Prince CharmingIs Just Another Name forThe Snake Charmer!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Snake Charmer--a wonderful book written by one of my favorite people, Stuart V. Goldberg--will soon be "out there."  

Not long after that, if all goes as planned, it will be turned into a movie set in Chicago with a cast made up of those who are in one way or another connected to The Windy City.  

From time to time, Stuart will share excerpts from his book (which is based on his experiences--seen by many, including myself, as downright heroic--as a defense attorney) with his Facebook friends.  

I understand why he does this, because I, too, am writing a book, and I feel like the contents are under pressure within me so that some will slip out like steam and food aromas from a pressure cooker before it's time to place its contents on a serving plate.

Today, he wrote on his wall about his practice of going right into the bowels of a jail or prison to meet with his clients instead of having them come to a sanitary, whitewashed meeting room.  He smells what they smell, hears what they hear, and places his well-maintained, upper-class hands on the cold bars that separate him from them (in body but not in spirit).

By coming this close to crawling inside of their skins, he feels much better prepared to defend them and lead them towards another chance to succeed at life.

The response I wrote to him seemed like one that shouldn't get lost in the shuffle of wall messages, so I've decided to share it here so that more people will understand why he is--and always will be--part of the beautiful embroidery of life that has been stitched on my heart.

I'm also including some wonderful graphics to illustrate this blog-entry, because learning more and more about Stuart is like encountering beautiful landscapes in either photographs or personal experience...

 Karen Carpenter might have sung of eyes of blue in Close To You instead of those beautiful ebony eyes of yours, but the words still apply to you because of the wonderful, sensitive person who is Stuart V. Goldberg.

You have, among others, your family, your friends (both real life and Internet), law students, and your adopted family from the hood all longing to be close to you, and you deserve this much more than you even show you realize through your sharing here at FB and in your upcoming book.

I hope that it will be finished and out there soon so that people can begin reading it and further make your inner-beauty (and I'm not saying that you don't have outer-beauty, too, because you have it in abundance as well!) a very contagious epidemic!!!

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