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My birthday is in a week. It’s hard to believe. I still feel like I’m in my early 20’s.

I was thinking of one of my favorite Jonathan Swift poems earlier, To Stella, which starts off like this:

Stella this day is thirty-four,
(We shan’t dispute a year or more:)
However, Stella, be not troubled,
Although thy size and years are doubled,
Since first I saw thee at sixteen,
The brightest virgin on the green;
So little is thy form declin’d;
Made up so largely in thy mind.

I love Swift’s writings. He was never afraid to speak the truth, no matter how harsh, even when it concerned someone he cared about.

In a couple months, Ken and I will celebrate our 11th anniversary. During that time, we’ve had two sons, and my size, like Stella’s, has doubled, and my hair which has had a little white in it since I was a teenager has rather steadily gone to gray.

And yet, the other day, Ken turned to me and said, “I wish you knew how beautiful you are.”
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A guy I knew, who’s proposal I’d just turned down, once told me, “You always think something better will come along.”

I wasn’t waiting for something better. I was waiting until I met someone I could imagine spending the rest of my life with. Ken was the first guy I ever met that I could see being happy with for the rest of my life. It hasn’t always been easy, but today, as much as ever, I look forward to us spending our lives together.

When we got married, the song we were supposed to dance to was “If You Could See What I See” by Geoff Moore and the Distance. I say supposed to because although the CD was in the player, no one thought to look there for it…and we had a band for the rest of the music (a bluegrass band…I’ll have to write about our wedding some time). It’s a beautiful song, and we still dance to it occasionally.

And you would know you have my heart
If you could see, what i see
that a treasure’s what you are
if you could see, what i see
Created to be
the only one for me
If you could see, what i see

But it’s a different song that I’ve been listening to lately, that makes me smile whenever I hear it. It describes how Ken makes me feel better than any other song I can think of. So I’ll leave you with this video, of Eric Clapton singing Wonderful Tonight.