River: Happiness is...

[mdlbear]

Happiness is...

• Lying in my wife's arms at 4:30 in the morning and weeping my first tears of joy because, after all my stupidity, she still loves me.
• Getting my heart back.
• Wise and patient friends. Thank you.
• Catharsis.
• Realizing that the first verse of Quiet Victories, which I thought was just there to set the scene, was more true and more important than I thought.
• Hearing her say "[recently] you've been as loving and attentive as the year we were married".
• Having her go happily back to sleep beside me.

Comments

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful and scary and eerie and satisfying and frustrating all at once when you write something "just 'cause it fits" and then, later, realize it is true, and profound, and in a social or metaphysical sense, a key--and some wiser part of you knew it before the rest of you did. Inevitably it's something that it would have been good if the rest of you knew, consciously, long before; you've been needing that key. Or at least so it has always seemed to me.

[mdlbear]

Thanks, and indeed yes.

If I'd only known at the beginning what I know now... I keep finding bits and pieces coming back at me that I wish I'd paid more attention to at the time. *sigh*

She doesn't call me "silly old bear" for nothing.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's doubtless things you notice & remember that she misses. Probably in a totally different part of life, of course.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

That cat is one in six billion. You are a lucky man.

[mdlbear]

I know. I'm still discovering just how lucky.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh! (smile)

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I just followed the link and printed out the song and taped it up on my office door.



(A tall, lean, pedantic chap -- with unruly light-colored hair, a great many pockets overflowing with markers, pens, and slips of paper, and a striped scarf that brushes the floor at both ends -- approaches thnidu and asks to take over the keyboard for a few moments.)

Tbe sirens ==> The sirens

(He stands up, bows, and departs, leaving a card which reads: "Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody")

[mdlbear]

Thanks. Actually I needed to delete that word, since I don't actually sing it anymore.

[callibr8]

Awwwww.... Yay! So happy for you *both*!

[mdlbear]

Thanks. Many thanks. It really was a particularly sweet moment.

[soojaebi.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I feel warm and fuzzy, and I am so happy for you both! :) HUGZ

[mdlbear]

((hugs back))