Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Much they have in common met when both fourteen married fifty-four years - to one another. Still share identical age somewhat agreeing on life's outlook though interpretations vary resulting in frequent discussions verging on disagreement, less trenchant as the years progress opinions almost merging to quiescent acceptance still subject to sudden flares of dissonance though nothing serious, merely idiosyncratic.
They share matched memories almost, with some variations in tenor if not in details and a proclivity to hug and to kiss and to proclaim sensitivity to one another's point of view sharing values, experiences children and priorities. Their dependence on one the other absolute, a requirement for utter comfort, satisfaction in life's uncertainties, knowing no uncertain element in that, their devotion to morning rituals afternoon circumstances and evening's practise for that long and dim sleep.
In the meanwhile take pleasure in the company each knows so intimately although not to the extent that one is capable of capturing the other's every thought and therein lies the mystique of the familiar unfamiliar that piques every day with the question of what's next? For there is no sameness to the progress of the days the weeks, the years gone by each steeped in the mystery and beauty of a shared life.
Reassuring love gestures none too casual to convey meaning a smile like none other a passing caress a gentle word a lifetime of assurance and tender grace.
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