Giving this its own thread so I'm not derailing other threads where it comes up.
I got engaged in October. Wedding will be in Seattle in June. He is an evangelical Christian, never married, no kids, and is in that 99.9% of the world's population that isn't interested in Mormonism.
We have a lot in common, right down to our childhoods in Alaska. I'm thankful to have him in my life.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
and a joke... from "nők lapja" (~~ 'news for women' or similar) "okos kata" column (~~ 'smart kathy')
"i want to remarry" (a reader): of 2473 comments: --- don't marry him! in the 33th year of our marriage he called me an old witch! --- marry him! i, myself, married seven times, all the time by love!
and best wishes again!
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
“It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.”