*Wedding Day/ANZAC Day* This is where it starts! Yeehahh!! Hoedown hootnanny time. Well, I'd like to propose a toast to Gregg, in appreciation of all his carefully researched Q! information, thoughts and sharing it with us all. Here's to you Gregg and your Wife. I wish you both a very, very, very, happy life together. That's THREE Irwin Jacobs 'very's.
Let's see now, you must be in Naples, which is down hurricane alley somewhere and the weather should be great, heading into summer. So, thinking of Naples and you two, there are some thoughts flying around the world from Kiwiland, to a little focal point of life and happiness. Like rays of sun. Gengki Dama [sp?] from around the world. It's already Sunday 25th here so it's your wedding day [unless I'm so hopeless that I'm a day out, but I'll still be in time because it's only the 24th there], but with relativity and those delays built in, the Gengki Dama should arrive on time].
Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't have a rant to make. {...sipping a tipple of sherry to warm up....}
I've been married since 1973 and you know many people who have been married. I heard the other day that some couple in the USA gets new wedding rings every five years. I guess in a sort of renewal concept. I'm more the battered, old, scratched and worn type but still there. Actually, mine is lost at the bottom of a lake in Maine where, when crashing during waterskiing, it came off my finger, which doesn't have a bumpy knuckle and shrinks, like so many things, in cold water. I didn't get a new one, though I'm sure I could if I asked, and prefer to know where the single one is. Too many would be devalued and hard to keep track of [to me anyway].
Sure, I don't actually have, it, but I know where it is and it was there where my wife, son and I were having a wonderful time with her cousin, his wife, children and parents. It's in my mind and I'm happy to have it there with wonderful married memories. 'Married' is only a state of mind anyway, though legally it is a stark assignation of property and responsibility to a woman and offspring.
Anyway, the joy of love, marriage and children is great. I hope you share that joy for many years. I hope you never have children commemorated in an ANZAC day. If you do have any children, I hope they follow in their father's footsteps [the part of him that I know anyway]. I'm sure you will have a wife as valuable as the Mighty Q! has been in investment because I'm sure she will be a wonderful person, 'chosen' as carefully as your investments. If you don't have children, I hope you share the pleasure and strength of a happy marriage for the rest of your lives. I say 'chose' because I'm not really sure how much we really 'choose' and how much we sort of blunder somewhat blindly and subsequently create a wonderful relationship which evolves and matures over the years.
We enter a process rather than a fixed institution with set job descriptions. I can tell you that the process will be bumpy. Well, perhaps a bit more than bumpy. In fact, most likely, it will be a bit like the stock market. More accurately still, like Qualcomm and Globalstar.
The sky is not the limit!
But, sometimes, things can go wrong and like the Zenit, dreams can come back to earth with a thud. These are the times that try men's souls. I hope any bumps will be little ones and the history of trials and tribulations will add strength and value to your marriage. The sharing of experience is what makes life good. Sharing hard times is as valuable as good times, though one can look back on hard times and it's like seeing a ghost.
Harmony and happiness. So wonderful and sometimes so elusive. Good luck in the hunt. With intentions good, the hunt can be pretty simple.
May your constellation fly high, lighting the sky and never die!
So here's to the two of you, best wishes, good luck and all the enjoyment of life that's possible.
Mqurice
PS: Gengki Dama is a Japanese 'word' from a comic series 'Dragon Ball' which ran for a decade about a heroic boy who was fighting evil and genki is a feeling of goodness, strength, wellness and a gengki dama is a ball [sort of like 'ball'-lightning] of all this, a bit taken from everyone in the universe and concentrated into a force which the hero hurls at the evil. So I'm sending you some gengki to add to your 'ball' of it so you can fight evil. I should admit that I have no knowledge of Japanese, but that's what I heard it means anyway.
Some pictures here:
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I see "she's winking at you" in the banner ad at the top. I hope that's your wife - she looks tempting. |
