If you want someone to accompany you on your journey through life,
Offer your companionship on their journey through life…
Sometimes to lead,
Sometimes to follow…
Not dependent,
But interdependent…
Often to take the autostrada,
Occasionally to take the scenic route…
Sometimes fast,
Sometimes slow…
Like two lovers…friends…who know one another well,
Trusting they will arrive at their destination…
And celebrate the adventure they took in one another’s company.
November 29, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Wonderful.
November 29, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Very True
November 29, 2012 at 10:54 pm
There’s nothing more heart-warming than seeing two old people holding hands and taking a walk together.
November 29, 2012 at 10:54 pm
I’m glad you like it Marie Hélène Visconti
November 29, 2012 at 10:55 pm
Fantastic and heartwarming.
November 29, 2012 at 10:55 pm
I have a picture like this taken in Paris this summer. Will share with you Giselle.
November 29, 2012 at 10:57 pm
Hi, Sheri ONeill you are always so supportive. Jack C Crawford this one was taken in the little Hamlet of Bardi in Italy, one of the little “frazione” from which came my father’s family….
November 29, 2012 at 10:57 pm
It is true Visnja Zeljeznjak isn’t it? It makes me feel as though I, too, can get there…
November 29, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Giselle Minoli oh I will do my best to get there, right now I’m doing absolutely fab, I’m just still too young to call it a success 🙂
November 29, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Ah….that is awesome Visnja Zeljeznjak. Then I have every reason to believe the same will be true….60 years from now! Bless you!
November 29, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Giselle Minoli and you! may you be old and wrinkled and adored by and equally old and wrinkled beloved man.
November 29, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Prepare yourselves for old age, sickness and dead for it comes soon.
Namaste friends Giselle Minoli Visnja Zeljeznjak Jack C Crawford Sheri ONeill 🙂
November 29, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Clemont Harms namaste, and namaste to the science that I am counting on to make me old and healthy 60 years from now 🙂
November 29, 2012 at 11:09 pm
This is true Clemont Harms. An awareness of the end makes the beginning and the middle so much more powerful…and sweet… Namaste to you, too!
November 29, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Don’t count on that, dead may come tomorrow. It is all illusion to think that science can improve and enhance health. Or maybe you are rich Visnja Zeljeznjak . Anyway the rich must die too, they only postpone their inevitable journey in the afterlife experiencing their karmic results. Greed isn’t a garanteed ticket to heaven, you know… Have a good life filled with attentive actions 🙂
November 30, 2012 at 12:55 am
When Sally and I were younger and I was better looking – she gets more and more beautiful – she looked forward to growing old together, still holding hands. I remember when meeting up with some old friends in the late 90s in the city they jealously teased that we still held hands. We do everything side by side.
November 30, 2012 at 1:18 am
Thank you Sheri ONeill 🙂 The person who shot that photo is our friend’s daughter and incredible photographer who can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. And please tell Sally how lucky she is
November 30, 2012 at 2:23 am
So then this photograph is for you Gary S. Hart and your Sally. And for you Visnja Zeljeznjak and your love. And for all and each of you and your loves. It’s for all of us…
November 30, 2012 at 3:50 am
Lovely Giselle Minoli . May we all accompany the ones we love into that adventure. I use the plural because what you write can be applied to a lover, a good friend or even a family member.
November 30, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Yes, Anita Law. It can, should, and does apply to anyone. I remember when I first moved to New York and started going to the theatre I’d close my eyes and imagine every Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway stage in the City getting ready at the same time. I loved that sense of the same thing I was doing happening for so many other people somewhere else at exactly the same moment.
I think life’s journey is like that…all of us walking along, side-by-side….
November 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Giselle Minoli lovely, and almost verbatim what my father-in-law said in the reception dinner after the wedding. Seriously. Smart advice…especially the part about interdependence – since both wife and I are ferociously independent. It has been a challenging and exciting thing to learn…
November 30, 2012 at 7:35 pm
I love how you think Giselle Minoli. You’ve basically now broadened it to all society!
December 2, 2012 at 5:16 am
“All of us walking along, side by side”, that’s a lovely way of putting life Giselle. This is why I love to read your posts and the comments from your audience.
December 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Good morning Gary Stockton. I’m really just waking up here. Incredibly lazy morning. The wind howled all night long. I don’t know about an “audiende” per se…but I am indeed kept the most wonderful company by really interesting, smart and articulate people. I’m very lucky and thankful for it.
So…this means that people we’ve never met and are unlikely to ever meet can accompany us our our journeys through life? What a great thought. It’s a reality now, isn’t it?