It’s been awhile since we have shared some of the great blogs that Dawne and I have discovered, so we thought it was high time that we spread some link love around. After all, love is no good if you keep it all to yourself, now is it…
First up is One Dozen Out-of-the-Box Ideas to [...]

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What happens to a marriage that lasts for 20 to 30 years, where there has been no infidelity and ends in divorce? Did the partners not find the Right One? Is the cause lack of communication, fighting, or could their be another love that is interfering? Where should our priorities lie when we are married?

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Money. Now there’s a real love/hate relationship for many of us: It’s value is fictional, yet our lives depend on it. Money is a tool, yet instead of us using the tool, the tool uses us. Our lives revolve around having it or getting it. And because these pieces of paper are linked to our survival in this world, it becomes more important than our REAL needs.

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Each of us needs to be needed: A human being without this need fulfilled feels useless. All of us are necessary or the Universe wouldn’t have put us here. It’s just the way things work - no redundancies: Everyone is necessary. But how do we determine when and where we’re really needed?

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I have always been a fiercely independent kind of guy, possessed of a distinct “can do” attitude. I believe that Dawne’s term for it is stubborn. She has often complained that around me she feels redundant, as I don’t seem to need her. Though I have tried to explain the myriad of ways that I do need her, they are always an ephemeral, intangible kind of need as opposed to a practical need. There are few things that we could point to and cite as tangible evidence of what she does for me. Now the tables have turned.

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In our relationships with others… Think about that phrase for a moment. Do you realize that this applies to every time we meet, however briefly, anybody? Yourself, your lover/partner, your children. Your neighbor, the manager of your apartment building, the cashier at the store, the person you walk by on the street. Each encounter is a relationship and how you are, affects each one.

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I call it the People Before Products rule, and it states exactly what it sounds like, that we should wherever possible put human beings as a higher priority over things. Getting this wrong can lead to unnecessary strife and even the dissolution of entire families. I remember when my maternal grandfather passed away my uncles [...]

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Every once in a while, Dawne and I make a point of taking a time out from the world and all it’s attendant cares and pressures. Yesterday was one of those days, and to tell the truth, I cannot recommend these days enough. While we do try and spend several evenings a week together, every now and again we take an entire guilt free day just for the two of us.

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I like to listen to music as I work, and particularly while I write. For the past month or so, I have been switching between a Blues/Soul playlist and one that could best be termed mellow/romantic. You know, Sinatra type stuff. Now here’s the thing: everything that I have written in the past month has felt hollow to me.

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My Father-in-law dropped by this weekend, and ever the good guest he arrived bearing gifts. This weekend’s care package consisted of freshly grown produce straight from his garden. Now to really understand Len you need to know one thing: the only thing that he loves more than painting is gardening. He is a gardener of the old English tradition, bringing forth a green bounty of life from rich soil lovingly tended using organic methods. And that is the real secret: he lovingly tends it. His is a labour of love.

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