Melanie Berge
Aug. 8, 2013
One studies life as they live life. It seems permanence is as elusive as youthful bodies incapability to maintain its age. This is terrifying to so many. Many children's childhoods have moments of agony when they realize there is an end to childhood, and the magic within and around them will fade into something vague on the horizon. But, even in the throes of that dilemma a child does not fathom time as finite because they live in the present! They, still in the expansiveness of a universe, resume the task of being a child at some point and go back to playing. Their parents will take care of them, they reason. The remnants of the magical and hopeful aspect of childhood lives in countless women and men who panic longer as their bodies age and they see themselves clothed in old age, rejected as they reject old people, and fear aging. It is the classic clusterfuck repeating itself ad nauseam. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.6.13
"Is it safe to assume this is Cosetta Chantal as a young bride? If it is the majesty of the moment must have effected all the guests, and blessed your parents and the two families now united as one! Many weddings are like that. Mine was. When weddings change lives the lives lived afterwards reward the promise of the wedding day. It is no more than an affirmation of the truth of who the man is to his wife and the wife to her husband. This is what wedding days become as time moves on with our lives acting out our principals and the stories within us that shape our actions and mold our spirits.
Men don't dream of wedding days with the intensity and consistency women do, nor do we dream the way women dream of and plan for the big day! We feel the need to be ready to be men for our families; loving and protective of our wives, and marriages. We need to be seen by our children as providers, and strong and invincible It feels different for a man to be a groom, and a husband. They are two and different kinds of men, one distinct from the other. The first births the second. The groom's state of being feels dynamic, and temporal. It is the wedding night that binds the relationship with the tides lapping upon the shore we landed upon. The wedding night is the night before the why? of our manhood goes into action and works into us as a husband, and a new kind of a man." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.6.13
Aug. 8, 2013
One studies life as they live life. It seems permanence is as elusive as youthful bodies incapability to maintain its age. This is terrifying to so many. Many children's childhoods have moments of agony when they realize there is an end to childhood, and the magic within and around them will fade into something vague on the horizon. But, even in the throes of that dilemma a child does not fathom time as finite because they live in the present! They, still in the expansiveness of a universe, resume the task of being a child at some point and go back to playing. Their parents will take care of them, they reason. The remnants of the magical and hopeful aspect of childhood lives in countless women and men who panic longer as their bodies age and they see themselves clothed in old age, rejected as they reject old people, and fear aging. It is the classic clusterfuck repeating itself ad nauseam. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.6.13
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| Cosetta Chantal January 10, 2012 |
"Is it safe to assume this is Cosetta Chantal as a young bride? If it is the majesty of the moment must have effected all the guests, and blessed your parents and the two families now united as one! Many weddings are like that. Mine was. When weddings change lives the lives lived afterwards reward the promise of the wedding day. It is no more than an affirmation of the truth of who the man is to his wife and the wife to her husband. This is what wedding days become as time moves on with our lives acting out our principals and the stories within us that shape our actions and mold our spirits.
Men don't dream of wedding days with the intensity and consistency women do, nor do we dream the way women dream of and plan for the big day! We feel the need to be ready to be men for our families; loving and protective of our wives, and marriages. We need to be seen by our children as providers, and strong and invincible It feels different for a man to be a groom, and a husband. They are two and different kinds of men, one distinct from the other. The first births the second. The groom's state of being feels dynamic, and temporal. It is the wedding night that binds the relationship with the tides lapping upon the shore we landed upon. The wedding night is the night before the why? of our manhood goes into action and works into us as a husband, and a new kind of a man." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.6.13
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