On Marriage

"We are both more committed all the time," he says. "And since we've had kids, even more so. We have gone through bad things together. We have brought life into the world. There is so much more important stuff than whether I look at another woman or we argue once in a while or whether she thinks I go hunting too often. We are committed to married life."
Mark Kayser

"...I'm reminded of just how big marriage is. The truth is, I like that it's big, I like that it's bigger than me. It's given my life a heft it never had with just me in it. I still watch kung-fu movies dubbed in Spanish. I still look, practically by accident, at pretty women. I still spend too much time Net-surfing on the weekends, when she would like us to be doing something together. But these are just satellites of annoyance stuck in orbit around the mass -- not mess -- that is our marriage. For the record, it's a gravity I have no intention of escaping."
Brian Alexander

Mark Kayser and Brian Alexander in an article posted here:
http://lifestyle.msn.com/Relationships/CouplesandMarriage/ArticleIV2.aspx?cp-documentid=43065>1=7116

"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished." Tommy Smothers

Contentment

Photo taken by Marilyn W. Lathrop
White Sands National Park, July 20, 2005

Contentment comes not to those whose means are great, but to those whose needs are few.

Anonymous

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 "I am perfectly happy as long as I don't ask myself if I am happy..."
Karl Lagerfeld