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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90 Year Old Ohio Lady's Words To Live By

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:


1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Have a good day.

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

It's estimated that 93% of people who receive this email won't forward it. Remember, friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

In Memory Of Anna Nicole Smith

Her sudden and mysterious passing made the headlines a few days ago. Although I hadn't kept up with her that much through her life, I knew whom she was and about her various ups and downs. I can say this much--that being that she had, sadly, become a kind of cardboard figure in the minds of too many...somebody who, too often, got looked at as a kind of joke, and somebody who deserved much better. Even now, we can still judge her and make jokes about her, but this will no longer touch her. She's safe. Where she is, she's appreciated for herself, and nobody is befriending her because of some sort of personal agenda. The sad thing is that this should have been the case when she was still on this side of life. We need to find more thrill in kindness than in cruelty. Cruelty should NEVER pass for entertainment--NEVER!!! Tonight, I came across that question again re:

What do you think of the situation with Anna Nicole Smith?

As I though about my answer, this song began to play in my head, and I want to share its lyrics here as a tribute to this candle-in-the-wind.
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