you & me

you're really good at cooking ribeye.  like the best.  i'm eternally grateful for that, and i only discovered it this winter.

The twists and turns of partnership are tight, they can be precarious, they can be significant.  At times they leave you so off balance you wonder how we can all survive the conversations and struggles of life with another person.  However, with the right person, with your person, the navigation system takes over, the desire to find one another through the dark shadows becomes greater than the ego and after many vulnerable moments one lands their heart right back where you've fallen in love once again.  For the safety in that partnership is that much greater than anything else, the trust, the care, the love, and the hairpin turns just require some white knuckles as we grip and navigate our way along the back roads of our shared lives.

I like this nautical definition for partners: a timber framework secured to and strengthening the deck of a wooden ship around a hole for a mast.  The idea of strengthening a man made hole to support that which allows us to sail forward catches me sweetly.  It tugs at my heart just the right way and brings me closer to understanding that which we do when we properly support another being on this journey.  Especially as parents, the demands of the floor of the ship and the rigging and the taking on of water, and defending from Pirates, and sometimes being Pirates ourselves becomes so great.  As a parent, just as a Captain you surrender your own needs for the sake of your crew, you sacrifice and sacrifice until you can get to port and restock, and navigating to port can be difficult in times of turbulence, so we all do the best we can.

But at the end of the journey I'm happy to have you by my side for every stretch of the way.