"Forgiveness is the perfume a flower leaves on the shoe that crushed it".
( more poetry at: FORUMS / Poetry and Quotes / The Try Write Zone )or: FORUMS / Poetry and Quotes / You, I and Life

I saw her picture here … on this introduction service
Attractive was she, but not only due to just her physical attributes … she was beautiful for other things as well …

Her apparent grace came from artfully dodging years of comments thrown by unthinking others.
Her stature derived no doubt from standing for what she believes in.
Her smile born upon her face is from truly mirthful humor - not humor derived at someone else’s expense.
The gray in her hair are battle ribbons of campaigns to make her children strong and loving as she.
The wrinkles she sports are furrows from worry about things she knew to be important.
There is no doubt she is a lady.

I salute her … and wish her well … and wish that she finds the peace, through repeats of the happiness and joy that has brought her thus far in her Life's Journey.

She deserves more than what she has. She doesn’t need another let down, or another problem or another burden.

If you meet her, be sure that you arrive with no baggage, no issues of disdain, no scars of the past, and no intentions of malice. She’s done her part, and she’s lived her life as best she could given the circumstances and the situations in which she has been cast. She should not be seen as your nurse, nor your champion, nor your … anything, because she is NOT “yours”. She is her own being. She is a living breathing person with every desire, every ambition and every need that every other living human being has or has tried to have. She only wants to be a companion and she only deisres to have a companion on what’s left of the road ahead. There are bumps and rough spots that she needs to avoid and, if you are the right one, she can trust you to help her in those avoidances. She is willing to share, but only if her sharing is met with yours.

Her attitudes, her understanding, her willingness to share and holdup her end “of the bargin” is what may help meld you two individuals into the “oneness” of a couple. If you’re very, very lucky … love may bloom from these seeds.

I admire her for her courage in taking the steps toward what she still believes is a pathway to the source of happiness for the years ahead: A life, happily shared.


Think we're important?

If you were to put to paper all your experiences, all your dreams, all your accomplishments and all those things you WANTED to accomplish … how much space would be required … how many reams of paper would such an undertaken endeavor require?

Cemeteries do it with a single dash – placed between your birth and death dates on a tombstone. Maybe we weren’t as important as we thought, eh?

As for me, personally, I'm interested in ladies who show their age, not hide it - for age is what provides wisdom and developes character. I like females whose hair is their natural color - and that includes natural white or any shade in between. Wigs and hair pieces are fine if they reflect the colors of natural tones for our age - especially if medical treatments have voided natural growth. Wrinkles and lines in faces should be proudly displayed as battle ribbons of having gone through life and survived. I don't want to meet chemically altered females, of botox or silicon and who knows what else - to age gracefully is not only a blessing it is a desirous thing. We've had our day in the sun - it's someone else's turn now ... we mustn't relive or hold onto the past in our futures ... Let's sit back and watch how the youngsters manuever over Life's Roads that we've already traveled, and lets' do it with dignity and grace. If they want our opinions, advice or comments - they'll ask for them. But for we of the traveled world ... it's our time to rest and recreate in those hobbies and passions we never had time for when raising a family or searching out the avenues of a career. We could do it alone, many of us do, but it's actually more fun to share, don't cha' think?

A first date equates to your first taste of foreign food: It looks good, it smells good, but what's it going to do to your insides? First dates can be anything both parties agree to try - something interesting, new, non-threatening, and above all fun. I mean, let's face it, when you go out with someone you've never met before and know absolutely nothing about - both parties should have a say as to what the activities, location and duration of that meeting should be ... at least I think so.