Comments on: Old Oaks from Little Acorns Grow http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jessica http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 jessica Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:18:42 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/09/24/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/#comment-1564 Wonderfully written. Glad I happened upon your site! Wonderfully written. Glad I happened upon your site!

]]> By: John Hartleroad http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 John Hartleroad Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:26:21 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/09/24/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/#comment-1528 Fred, you have an amazing capacity to express deep emotion with words. I have re-read this entry several times to examine what has attracted me. It is certainly the photograph since I consider myself to be a visual person, but it is also the invitation to remember. This coming January, my wife and I will be married for 40 years and I will turn 60 the next month. Colleagues had great fun last February when they celebrated my 60th a year early. The joke has given a year-long opportunity to remember the past and envision the future. The letters I wrote to Judy before we were married are long gone. They had been saved for many years until an overly-zealous recycler took the box in which they were stored. The memories are not gone however. I especially appreciate the latter portion and the reflection on soft tissue injuries. Thanks. Fred, you have an amazing capacity to express deep emotion with words. I have re-read this entry several times to examine what has attracted me. It is certainly the photograph since I consider myself to be a visual person, but it is also the invitation to remember. This coming January, my wife and I will be married for 40 years and I will turn 60 the next month. Colleagues had great fun last February when they celebrated my 60th a year early. The joke has given a year-long opportunity to remember the past and envision the future. The letters I wrote to Judy before we were married are long gone. They had been saved for many years until an overly-zealous recycler took the box in which they were stored. The memories are not gone however. I especially appreciate the latter portion and the reflection on soft tissue injuries. Thanks.

]]> By: bluemountainmama http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 bluemountainmama Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:54:15 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/09/24/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/#comment-1510 hmmm... so much stirring under the surface of these words.... a haunting prose. my husband and i just celebrated our 7th year of marriage. i tell everyone that that's equal to about 20 'Hollywood' years. :) but we have already had our share of going to the 'hard' places , unmet expectations, doubt, etc. my mom sent me a quote once that said something about love not being gazing into each other's eyes longingly, but gazing outward together, side by side. and i think there is wisdom in that... hmmm… so much stirring under the surface of these words…. a haunting prose.

my husband and i just celebrated our 7th year of marriage. i tell everyone that that’s equal to about 20 ‘Hollywood’ years. :) but we have already had our share of going to the ‘hard’ places , unmet expectations, doubt, etc.

my mom sent me a quote once that said something about love not being gazing into each other’s eyes longingly, but gazing outward together, side by side. and i think there is wisdom in that…

]]> By: Marion http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-1496 Marion Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:16:51 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/09/24/old-oaks-from-little-acorns-grow/#comment-1496 Nice notes, Fred. I too have a folder of handwritten letters from my husband-to-be when he'd moved back to Maine from his 2-year sojourn to California, where we had met each other. His kids needed him closer to them, & I agreed. His 'memory' says I was more in love than he; the letters prove we were both besotted. After 27 years of marriage, I'm waiting for the right time to spring those letters on him. Valentine's Day? Our next anniversary? His birthday in a few weeks? Nice notes, Fred. I too have a folder of handwritten letters from my husband-to-be when he’d moved back to Maine from his 2-year sojourn to California, where we had met each other. His kids needed him closer to them, & I agreed.
His ‘memory’ says I was more in love than he; the letters prove we were both besotted. After 27 years of marriage, I’m waiting for the right time to spring those letters on him. Valentine’s Day? Our next anniversary? His birthday in a few weeks?

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