Cynthia E Varnado-The Honest Kitchen
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My husband and I on our wedding day – June 14, 1969
Our marriage – something old that has been made beautiful with a lot of work and patching by both of us. – DiVoran Lites.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney
I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age – once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash
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I am delighted to be on the same planet as the creative, talented people who make art.
It continually amazes me that several people can look at a material and react to it in different ways.
Take a ball of string –
The possibilities are endless. I love the different ways people look at things and ‘see’ the possibilities!
“Earth without art is just ‘eh.'”
Helen Keller – Getty Images
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your
joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.“
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“Love is in the air, and it smells like coffee.” ~ Unknown
“Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants.” ~ Nanea Hoffman
TimeOut
“If you are not coffee, chocolate, or bacon, I’m going to need you to go away.” ~ Unknown
TimeOut
“May your coffee be strong and your Monday be short.” ~ Unknown
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We had a nice morning, joining our good friends for Lunch Bunch – good friends, good food, fun conversation, and laughs. This is a quality of life thing, getting to share some time each Friday with long time friends who mean the world to me.
Our friend Kay asked if I had an Instant Pot. I DO, but it’s been sitting on the shelf because I’m intimidated by it. (My mom had a pressure cooker years ago. I still remember when it ‘blew up’ sending bits of STUFF all over the walls, ceiling, floor, etc. No one was hurt, but it’s like it was yesterday in my mind.) I’m trying to get over my trepidation. I found out Kay has one and uses hers all the time! I’m going to get out my paperwork, the book that came with it, and a recipe book I got very soon. I’ll choose a recipe, and Kay has encouraged me to call her with dumb questions about it, plus she’ll give me tips on things to DO – and things NOT to do – while using it!
After Lunch Bunch we ran errands and I put things away, I cut up strawberries for my husband, divided up some pulled pork into servings to go into the freezer for his future lunches, etc.
I’m on DAY TWO of the great ‘pantry-and-kitchen-clean-out-and-reorganization project.’ I did the heavy stuff yesterday. I’m creating a pile of donations in our foyer to to the Veterans Thrift Store. I filled a big leaf bag with ‘stuff’ that needed to be thrown out yesterday.
Today I’m trying to finish the project – working on our medicine storage area and some other little things, and then I’ll share a pic or two.
My husband could already tell I had been working in there. He looked around and said, “Where did you put all the STUFF?” :0)
I hope you’re having a great Friday, too.
Email from Marsha Koenig
“The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
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“It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.”
― Saint Francis
“The minutes rushed past, without compassion for my enthusiasm.”
― Ritratto notturno
“I blinked my eyes
and in an instant,
decades had passed.”
― Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems
“There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.”
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“Time limits, make each moment count.”
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