{"id":4233,"date":"2015-07-22T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2015-07-22T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:00:35","slug":"back-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4233","title":{"rendered":"Back is good."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deery\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You know that T-Shirt that you see at a lot of Souvenir Shops when you go on vacation?\u00a0 It is the one that says in big bold letters:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Wife (or Husband, or Friend, etc.) went to New York City (or name of any city anywhere), and all I got was This Stupid T-Shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know the shirt.<\/p>\n

Well, my wonderful\u00a0 and loving partner of 25 years went to Europe for 2 weeks and just returned.\u00a0\u00a0 Guess what I got?\u00a0 A shirt.<\/p>\n

(Albeit, a hooded gray hooded sweatshirt, of the variety I love, and pretty much live in\u2026., and in big bold letters, it says ROMA on the front, and has the Italian Flag and all.\u00a0 And since I was raised Catholic, and Rome is a pretty-dang big deal of a city for Catholics, especially since Pope Francis seems to have his Pope-Poop all-together\u2026..IT is a ROCKING, rocking sweatshirt, but I am completely off track.)<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 There you have it.\u00a0 A Shirt from Europe.\u00a0 That was my keepsake.\u00a0 OR\u2026 was it?<\/p>\n

NO.\u00a0 What I truthfully got was SO much more.\u00a0 This morning when I woke up, the song in my heart was back.\u00a0 My friend, my confidant, my soulmate.\u00a0 My kindred spirit had returned.<\/p>\n

We caught up and drank way too much coffee.\u00a0 We played with the dogs, and fed the chickens.\u00a0 We fed the fish.\u00a0 We laughed, and talked, and shared stories.\u00a0 We sat in the newly renovated Meditation Garden and I got bit by bitey insects, while she went unscathed.\u00a0 We watched the birds, and the deer at their feeders.<\/p>\n

The beat in my heart came back.\u00a0 The spring in my step.\u00a0 And the sparkle in my eye.\u00a0 THAT is what I got when my partner came back from vacation.<\/p>\n

This, I can only tell you, is a state of mind which I cannot really re-echo in writing.\u00a0 But it is the best state I\u2019ve ever visited.\u00a0 And it is right here, where I call home.<\/p>\n

It is home.
\n“A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.”\u00a0 —\u00a0 Kenny Loggins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”\u00a0\u00a0 —\u00a0 \u0001Antoine de Saint-Exupery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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