“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
[Martin Luther]
May 2011
9 posts
He must love Another more than me.
“He loved God. That was the supreme dynamic of his life. Nothing else mattered much by comparison.”
[Elisabeth Elliot]
He might even peruse The Sartorialist with me.
He will walk through the house before bed & check all the windows & doors.
I won’t need to ask him if he remembered. He takes his role as Protector seriously.
“He will not mind when I make him wait as I take pictures of the food and table setting before we eat. Beauty must be documented.”
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I would like him to cook alongside me.
I will wear his old dress shirts to sleep.
I will need a room of my own. Any kind of room.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
[Virginia Woolf]
he will be the guardian of my solitude
” Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky. “
[Ranier Maria Rilke]
