Posted 5-10-19
Tomorrow morning at 9am my bride and I celebrate 250,000 hours of wedded bliss! In case you can’t work through those numbers in your head, we hit 29 years this November! Many wondered if 2 babies of the families, still babies at 19 and 18, would make it a week…and we are happier now than ever. 🙂 Working with seniors as I do, if they have taught me anything, I have surely learned one thing: Life is short and enjoy and celebrate everything. Everything. Every moment. Everything including convoluted anniversaries like your 250K Day. (Editor’s note that may cause projectile vomiting from my kids….Susan is still, by far, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, inside and out. She is my perfect spouse. 🙂 Very thankful.. and more in love today than day 1.) So I will celebrate tomorrow, then the next day I will start planning for the 29th anniversary, the 30th anniversary and some crazy minute and second anniversaries in times ahead. I don’t want to miss a second….nor an opportunity to celebrate and be thankful.
So… how exactly is life “short”? Spock would say that this statement is “highly illogical” since Earthlings’ days are numbered to the millisecond, counted as the non-flat planet circles its sun. Logically/statistically speaking, maybe my pointy-eared friend is right, but don’t tell that to my good friend Debe who, after waiting to for the perfect Mr. Right for decades found him only to have him taken by ALS far too soon, then lost her father and her favorite pets in very short order. The short time she had with Michael, her dad and the pets wasn’t confined by the hours on the clock, nor have the minutes since he has been gone.
Don’t spout Earth’s rotation talk to me and my family as the time from mom’s dementia diagnosis nearly a decade ago sped in Warp 10 to where she is now. Oh what we would give for an hour…60 minutes is fine for now… to talk about the old days and tell her how we feel again such that she knows that we will always be there for her.
Indeed time has new meaning the older we live as the grains in the hourglass, once located nearly all to the north, now fell south. Did the neck of that hourglass change circumference? Spock says no, but I say yes.
I will not be posting this weekend and I celebrate my 250,000th hour with Suz and Mother’s Day with Suz and with my mom. I will make it up to you next week. 🙂 Thank you for considering thoughtfully this: Cherish every grain of that hourglass, love your family and your God and look heavenward for a time when time and pain will be no more.
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