I'm a big, huge, sloppy sap, but this made me smile today:

While I was walking my first-grader home from school this afternoon, we passed the house of a family who has lived in this neighborhood just slightly longer than we have. When we first moved here, their daughter was in sixth grade, two years younger than my oldest. Like many of us, this young girl went through a very awkward, gawky stage. Now a senior in high school, she's well beyond her awkward stage and has grown into a beautiful young woman.

As we passed the house, we saw a little fire-engine red sports car pulled up in front, a really cute boy behind the wheel. The house door banged open and the neighbor girl ran out of the house wearing a red t-shirt with her blonde hair pulled into a ponytail in a red ribbon. She got into the little sports car and they roared off into a sunny afternoon.

I couldn't help smiling. Young love is so sweet.

I was expecting something with kittens or puppies. Y'know, something cute.

Not something that would remind me of how lonely and miserable I am.

I know you didn't mean it, but...

Weep, and you weep alone:
For this stolid old earth
Has need of your mirth,
It has troubles enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will echo it:
Sigh, and it's lost on the air;
For they want full measure
Of all your pleasure,
But nobody wants your care.
Feast, and your halls are crowded,
Fast, and they'll pass you by;
Succeed and give,
And they'll let you live,
But fail - and they'll let you die.

Touches the heart, don't it?
I can remember...

My daughter got a handmade card from her 'boyfriend' today and she showed it to me with just delight in her face.

It was pretty cute. He's a nice boy and the card was adorable. Cut and paste, the whole shebang.

Thanks for posting this. :hi:

just reading it. Young love. :loveya:

The theme from "A Summer Place."

:7

It sort of symbolizes the early '60s to me — Camelot and all that.

And I looooooove the strings. :7