Time and Love

Today is my parents wedding day anniversairy. They have been together for a long time and I am often reminded of how blessed I am to call them my Mom and Dad.
These days there are not many people who manage to stay together for as long as my parents have. It's not always a lack of love or affection that is the problem, but being able to live in the same house and spend every day together can sometimes just be too complicated. Love is not always enough. But my parents have lived together since long before I was born and I am very proud that they have been able to take such good care of not only each other, but our entire family.

I have always been a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and his music has played a big part in my adult life. Not only does he record great music, but he has always been one of my favorite writers of song lyrics. He has a great way with words which is both poetic and lyrical. Recently I watched an interview where he talked about the songs on his new album which came out earlier this year. For those of us who know his music, it has become clear on the albums of recent years that he is very aware of the fact that he is growing older. And he is very appreciative of love and the people around him. In this interview he was asked how he felt about growing older, himself having been married for nearly twenty years. This is what he said:

There seems to be a transcendence of time in love, and I believe that there is. I carry a lot of people with me that aren't here anymore. The normal markers of the day, over the month, over the year... those are very fearsome markers. As you get older particularly. In the presence of love, and someone you care about, they loose some of their fearsome powers. And instead you're marking time by light, and the way it plays on a persons face at any given moment. That's your awareness of time over the course of that day.

Tonight my parents have been married for 35 years.