Flaming June's Love

I Love My Husband. I love him even on the days when I cant look at him for one more second. So tell me what is Valentines Day? I have my belief, It is the day when you tell the ones that you love that ... You Love Them. I tell Andy I love him everyday. Yup even more than once a day. In the middle of the night I tell him I love him. He may not hear me but I hear me. I tell him I love You on the phone when we are about to hang up. Then there are days we hang up and I say it and then say jerk.... I may not like him at that monet but dammit I Love him. My guy is in Arizona for business this week. He is working and he is having fun Im sure. I miss him. I want to tell him I love him. I love him for working for us. I love him for loving me when I am not terribly lovable. He loves our son, he loves my girls. He loves my family. He pays the bills, he makes "ends Meet" He makes me feel wanted, appreciated and valuable. So on this Valentines day I will get a card that says so...

Things look bleak, discouraged, disenchanted. A little hope and positive unity certainly cant hurt... so for those that dont agree on the political fine points please agree to give change a chance. I need to do more, big words without action is pride and self absorption, I dont want that to be me. I need courage and insight into what a change I can make even in small steps and doses. Because if Barack Obama says Yes We Can, I think I am going to believe him. Not because he is black or democrat, but because he holds my childrens future in his hands at this point. I dont want to fight or be a naysayer I want to be a positive voice in the process. Why does the attitude of hope and courage need to be looked down upon as futile and empty? I choose Hope tonight, for all of us.

I have been feeling this swirling heat, not quite nausea, but a fair mix of pride and anxiety. I feel an urgency to either be bursting with excitement for my nephew and an uncontainable fear for my entire family. My nephew Danny has joined the United States Marine Corps. He has not yet finished his first year of college but has committed the next 6 years of his life to serving his country. Is he answering a call of manhood to prove something to himself? Is he answering the inherent drive to go and be something bigger and better? I dont know, I dont know if he knows. What I do know is that his life will forever change on May 11 when he gets on the bus to go to Parris Island. He will return from there a different person. The reserved quiet respectable young man will come home, something else. That something else or that someone else is someone no one knows, we havent met him yet, Daniel Thadeaus Jones- The Marine, will come home and be a new man in our lives. I will love him, r...