 Romance/Love: September 14, 2011 Issue [#4611] |
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This week: Observations 'Round the Neighborhood Edited by: Fyn  
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"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."~~Judy Garland
"I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!"~~Robert Browning
"O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!"~~John Keats
"Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known"~~ Vladimir Nabokov
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.~~Charlie Chaplin
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.~~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.~~ by Percy Bysshe Shelly
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."~~Khalil Gibran |
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Romance...All in the perspective...
He surprised her on their first anniversary with an all inclusive Mark IV Shopsmith -- a woodworker's dream gift. No roses, no champagne...and she was ecstatic! Her eyes widened, tears flowed, she was speechless until the moment her legs regained momentum and she flew into his arms.
She presented him with a signed photograph of 'The Production Line' as a Christmas present. His jaw dropped; he goggled her looking for all the world like a fish out of water. He looked at her with adoration for weeks after...she 'got' him.
I gave my hubby a dream one birthday; a hot air balloon ride...he STILL talks about it six years later. I just asked him what 'romance' means to him. He said the 'whole balloon ride thing."
I asked him what he thought romance or doing something romantic meant for a woman. He looked at me with one of those 'superior male looks' and responded, "For you? Flowers, a coffee mug and maybe whatever book you are currently drooling after."
I laughed; he has me pegged! I went around the neighborhood asking people. Two of the answers above came from those conversations. Others were:
By couples; asked separately.
Him: "Romance? I don't know; I don't DO romance stuff."
Her: "For me it would be if he ever gave me flowers. He does light candles occasionally." (these two are dating)
Her: "Him (with a nod at a spouse) getting up with the kids and feeding them breakfast while I sleep in."
Him: "For me it is when I get an afternoon away to play golf with no guilt attached. For her; she thinks it is romantic if I let her sleep in and I get up with the kids." (these guys are so married and they seem to understand each other well.)
Him: "When she asks me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant."
Her: "When he asks me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant." (these two are a couple; I got a kick out of their answers)
Her: "My idea of a romantic night would be no kids, a candle-lit dinner that he cooked, a bottle of wine, getting to sleep at a decent hour and being able to sleep all night. He'd like it if we never 'got' to sleep!"
Him: "She'd like the candle-lit dinner routine; I would too actually. I wonder if her mom could watch the kids tonight..." (Yup, married and btw, grandma showed up to snag the kids about an hour after that conversation, didn't see either of them til this afternoon and both looked pretty darned happy!)
Perspectives. Far cry from the average romantic gestures we read about in romance novels. Of course, most romance novels are about the couple before they tie the knot. Which leads me to wonder if it is supposed to all go out the window after the honeymoon is over. Why don't we see romance novels about a married couple? Is it because there is no angst, trouble or misunderstandings? Can there only be stories about either those not together yet or, perhaps, maybe, a couple separated? No trouble means no reason to tell a story? Is it because it would be boring or there'd be nothing to root for? Who cares if they are happy? We want miscommunication, separation, tempers, tears and mayhem! We only want an illusion of HEA at the END of the book.
The most romantic thing my hubby ever did is a toss up between hiding an engagement ring on the Christmas tree a week before Christmas and wondering if I'd see it beforehand (I didn't) or when he spent countless hours designing a wooden star shelf to go in an old 'pass-through' in the dining room. Did he think either were romantic? The ring thing, yeah, maybe. Me? I thought both were. He thinks my washing his hunting clothes at before hunting season starts and playing 'Fred Bear' at full blast on the first day of bow season is romantic as all get-out. Funny how romance isn't connected with two people falling into bed as much as it is with a loving connection/understanding. Both are good. Just different. Again; perspectives! |
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