I had a birthday post planned for my 2000 hubday - then I began reading today's scary posts. I always knew there were big and important things going on that I knew nothing about. Now these things seem bigger and more important than ever. Thank you hubski rrrrr kleinbl00 and others for perspectives that I would not normally find.
Thank you hubski for providing me with a place to be funny steve and help people sometimes (you know who you are).
Thank you hubski for putting up with my #stateofthelil reports when I was in a dire state. You helped me write and laugh my way out of that state.
There is so much more, but life goes on, dammit, and so will I.
Thank you for your very lovely implicit wishes for the longevity of Lil and me truckin' together. We both have been there and done that wedding thing, more than once for each of us. We've both learned that a wedding does NOT guarantee love and/or happiness. So, for now, we are grateful for the love and happiness. Wedding is not on our to do list. If you and we are ever in the same place at the same time, Kleinbl00, we will find many, many things to toast, I am sure. Shall we? Where on the planet do you spend most of your time? For all I know, you could be in the next block over or even my downstairs neighbor.
So cool that you could retrieve that post. So, are you in Seattle?
I'd love to take you up on the toast one day . . . or night . . . or more.
Cartoon reminds me of a phrase I heard in a men's store. A clerk was handing new shirts and the manager said to him, "Good, now could you shade them." - meaning organize them according to colour. Maybe "Shade them," will be instructions to future border guards.
I too am so very grateful, Lil, that you found such deep and real community to walk with you through that valley of shadows and now beyond. I am grateful beyond words, beyond conceptualizing, that I too have been graced to walk with you for part of that journey and, God willing, at least a bit farther into the future. Hubski is a great community. We human manifestations of divine presence are a strange lot. It's so important to have good company and some laughs along the way.