Happy
Birthday! Lovely-Lady Candice Leah!
(May
8, 2023 Celebrate! Yea!)
And---Somewhere
in time & space I awoke aware of God’s awesome gift-of-sacred life---then I
resolved to Honor my Benefactor’s Love…by appreciating life & love
embracing it completely!
When, one fine day at 12 years-of-age, I
busily removed a cherry tree in Grandma’s hedge- row, across the vacant lot
separating me from a side street came soft “whispering”-sweetness calling to
“shy” me, “Hey! Big-boy! Don’t hurt
yourself!” Wow! Candy-girl!
Speaking---to…me!
A “Thunderbolt!”
Love!-strikes! An innocent
12-years-old sledgehammered by
eternal-Love!
Amen! A God-send! To me!---And, to Lovely-Lady Candice Leah?...Eternal Love complete!
An Honor-pledge
of Love & Respect! My “word”! Sacred!
My “bond”! A Gentleman! I pray!
Both of us in college with me working
nights and residing in a mobile home we rented until her Dad and I finished her
parents’ basement into an apartment where we lived until graduation. Then, we
bought an older house, fixed it up, bought 10-acres, sold the house and built a
new home on the bluff overlooking the Mississippi River bottoms with one Fantastic-Awesome view.
We got Caty a horse and I put in a
swimming pool. Candy decorated with class to Perfection!
Becky was born shortly before we moved
into the new domicile, we lived there 6-years!
I “Sold” that semi-“mansion” and “trade-“up” to a 214-acre
farm, built a new home and constructed a pool, increased our horse-herd to
7-steeds. We had a rock-bottom creek where the girls and I had “horse”-play
races as the kids tried to literally “Drown”-Dad! Fun! & Games!
We vacationed Colorado and Oregon. The
Rocky Mountains stole my heart and won my spirit; I seriously considered moving
there. Oregon seduced my heart and soul and captured my spirit. After 11 years
on the farm, I “Sold” it and the tribe emigrated to the Great Northwest!
A caravan traversed west by north with Z. Tyler my co-pilot in the Ryder truck.
We celebrated his 2nd birthday “on-the-road”! One Fabulous-adventure! Wouldn’t have missed
it for the world!
Caty attended Law School in Oregon,
Becky finished High School. Caty did her final year at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee; the clan moved South. We came back to Oregon for Law
School graduation and a final “Good-bye” to the Great Northwest. Exciting-adventure!
Eventually, the family resettled in
Illinois. Lauren! Lexi! & Anna Marie
were born there.
Thank
you! Dear Lady!
For patience! “Understanding”. Support. Being a Good-sport! Amen!
I reckon, upon reflection, one of us had
to be the “adult”?---Of course…It wasn’t me!
I confess that I saw life as one
Great-adventure, a time for Fun-through-space!
Irresponsible!
Somewhere in the swirl of
“living-for-the-adventure-fun”, I managed to allow a modicum-of-ambition buying numerous properties and
constructing “estates’ with pools and stables. Seems every time Lovely-Lady Candice Leah perfected her
“new” home to elegant-ideal---I…”Sold” it!
No complaints! Ever! Encouragement! & Support! Always! My Saint! My Angel! Thank you!
I’ve enjoyed an Awesome-wonder adventure! I pray thee had a Fantastic “joy” along the way.
Through the clarity-absolute---one thing
for certain…Each dawn I Love-thee more!
Amen!
Comes,
then, the dawn offering another adventure promise event!
Orange-orb
sunrise affirming sight to Love the
holy-sacred nuance!
Ancient
silver-maple filigree dapple-shade resting labor muscle-strain!
High-noon
comfort golden-warm where I reside just south beyond!
Afternoon
ice-cream sweet-treat to cool a tired body desiring rest!
Purple-eve
soft-shadows tending supper’s fried chicken dinner-fare!
Midnight-dreamscape
Wild-unicorn Magic to soar an eternal cosmos!
Happy Birthday! Love, Carl
Edward
