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joyful_grrrl had me look at something on the website Off Beat Bride, and I poked around the website a little, and found the following quote from Miss Manners:
"While exclusionary interest in one other human being, which is what we call courtship, is all very exciting in the stages of discovery, there is not enough substance in it for a lifetime, no matter how fascinating the people or passionate the romance.
The world, on the other hand, is chock full of interesting and curious things. The point of the courtship — marriage — is to secure someone with whom you wish to go hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then sharing some and merely reporting others. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire world, demanding to be someone's sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be classified as a bore. "Why don't you ever want to talk to me?" will probably never start a satisfactory marital conversation. "Guess what?" will probably never fail."
Does this give anyone else a serious case of the warm fuzzies? Or did I just have one glass too many of wine tonight?
Bought two books, a fiction by Annie Dillard, and a collection of autobiagraphical short stories called Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, which I quite like. Piccolo park had kids and parents and other people with bicycles and blankets and books. It was lovely. Hawthorne was crowded because the weather was so nice and it's Saturday. Ben'n'Jerry's had "Pint for a pint" promotion--there was a couple of Red Cross vans taking blood donations, and in exchange you got a coupon for ice cream. That made me smile.
joyful_grrrl had me look at something on the website Off Beat Bride, and I poked around the website a little, and found the following quote from Miss Manners:"While exclusionary interest in one other human being, which is what we call courtship, is all very exciting in the stages of discovery, there is not enough substance in it for a lifetime, no matter how fascinating the people or passionate the romance.
The world, on the other hand, is chock full of interesting and curious things. The point of the courtship — marriage — is to secure someone with whom you wish to go hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then sharing some and merely reporting others. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire world, demanding to be someone's sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be classified as a bore. "Why don't you ever want to talk to me?" will probably never start a satisfactory marital conversation. "Guess what?" will probably never fail."
Does this give anyone else a serious case of the warm fuzzies? Or did I just have one glass too many of wine tonight?
Bought two books, a fiction by Annie Dillard, and a collection of autobiagraphical short stories called Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, which I quite like. Piccolo park had kids and parents and other people with bicycles and blankets and books. It was lovely. Hawthorne was crowded because the weather was so nice and it's Saturday. Ben'n'Jerry's had "Pint for a pint" promotion--there was a couple of Red Cross vans taking blood donations, and in exchange you got a coupon for ice cream. That made me smile.
