So I’ve been sorta blue lately…not as in the color, as in the feeling. Thanks, COVID-19. Church, writers’ events, family visits–all the things I normally do that keep my mind running faster than I can follow–all of it canceled due to the present crisis. On days Ivan is gone and the house is very still […]
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Failure is seeing the shuttering of my husband’s face—the hardened eyes, heightened color that signals betrayal—and knowing I hurt him like that. Failure is the careful treading around a good friend after a disagreement. It is the wondering—and not knowing—how I could have handled that situation differently. Could I even do it differently if I
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So, I don’t think I live up to this yet…but here’s what I’ve been thinking about. *** My great grandma’s rocker had a cover on it once—blue blocks in several shades, circled by a dark blue ruffle—but I thought it ugly, so I threw it way. The wood of the rocker is worn. On the
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I cried one day—one day in a progression of many—and he cupped his hands under my teardrops, whispered the most beautiful words anyone had ever said to me. “Here,” he said, “let me hold your tears.”
So maybe it’s laughable for someone who’s been married only two months to try to say anything at all about it yet. All the same, I know a whole lot more about marriage now than I did seventy-five days ago when we started it. Here’s what I’ve learned.
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