 Romance/Love: October 13, 2010 Issue [#4022] |
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This week: Love in a grain of sand? Edited by: Fyn  
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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."~~Judy Garland
I usually have a list of quotes, but this one was so special, every other one I found seemed dimmer.--fyn |
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Can you show me romance in an autumn leaf or love in a grain of sand? Can you show me feelings in a star and emotion in a caterpillar's band? Can you show me sympathy in an old stone fence or show me gratitude in a silver beech? Can you show me how to touch that which is beyond your reach?
Part of what we experience in love are those little things two people discover between each other. In my case it all started with a stick! Just a long branch stuck in the side of the road in mid summer. We would see them driving in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. No regular distance between them, no rhyme or reason to it. Always branches, never thin boards. After a while, one or the other of us would see one and simply say, "Stick," and grin. A couple of days later we saw a tall, dead tree spearing into the sky with nary a branch. "Dead stick." A huge washed up piece on the shore of Lake Superior became, "Drift-stick." Following year we snagged a stick to bring home with us. When he asked me to marry him, he asked if we could, "Stick together forever." When the time came to decide what to engrave inside my wedding band, it was a no-brainer. "Stick 12-12-08."
Silly? Maybe. Important? Oh yes. Uniquely ours? Absolutely. Give your characters this reality. Let them discover ways of expressing their love that aren't typical. Let them come alive in ways only those characters can or could. Or should.
My mother lost her wedding band in St Croix while swimming. Two years later we arrived back there for vacation just as a hurricane swerved towards the island. We stayed and spent hours with hotel crew huddling inside an ancient sugar mill high on the hill behind the hotel while around and below us the hurricane destroyed much of the island. The next morning, my dad and I wandered along the beach finding small treasures: a giant conch shell, a pink starfish and bits and pieces of people's lives. Dad found the big treasure. Sitting in plain sight was Mom's ring. We'd always brought a baggie full of beach sand back from each trip to one of the islands. So dad filled the baggie and buried mom's ring in the bottom. On the bag, he wrote: "As many grains of sand are in in this bag, they surely cannot add up to the number of reasons I love you still." Mom was so touched by this. You can only imagine the look on her face when she dug through the sand and found her wedding band! Yes. You can find love in a grain of sand. And I have never looked a beach the same way again.
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monty31802 writes: Your newsletter could not be based on a truer or better subject, nice poem also. Great job, fyn
Thanks!
Fiona Hassan  says: I had really been hoping someone would write a romance newsletter about love after marriage sometime! Thanks! (I guess that brands me as not-so-typical teenager lol!) Awesome poem, too! Thanks for featuring my piece this week :)
Nay, just as a super cool one!
Briar Rose comments: Fyn, thank you for this nl and for that poem. I loved watching my grandparents enjoy that twilight of romance - they used to sit on the couch and hold hands even when they were 90! My own dh and I have been married 15 years (married on my grandparents' 60th anniversary) and while I loved our new love, and I love our current love, I'm also looking forward to the kind of love you have described so well in your poem. Well done.
hmmm...me and hubby will be married for 2 years come December 12th although we've known each other for twenty-five even though we weren't together the majority of that time.. Don't expect you have much of a wait! *grin*
Mara ♣ McBain  said: I loved the topic of this NL. There is something so special in long time love. I like to write married couples for the comfort level they have with one another. It really adds another dimension.
Absolutely!
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