Good day to you all. New comer here.

[ardeano_1864]

Good Day to everyone
I'm brand new here... to the world, I've been here for 43 years. I have diverse interests and not as much time as I would like for reading. I'm very outdoor oriented. I'm happily married with 4 daughters and eight grandchildren.
Presently sitting at the keyboard in an old farm house with the wind howling outside at 18 degrees. Wearing my old holey sweat pants an insulated shirt and morning hair that looks like Eiensteins'.
Oh, my picture posted, if you have looked, includes Jack. He's asleep on the couch at my right hand with his right paw curled over his nose.
Give me a holler on yahoo @ [email protected], as I'm very sociable and dearly love a good conversation.

Alan

[Cien]

To the world, I've been here for seventeen years. (interesting way of phrasing that)

I make a lot of time for reading. I'm not sure how, precisely, because I have so many things I do in addition to reading -- but for me, reading is like... well, you know those people who practice piano for five hours a day with the hope that maybe, maybe, if they are truly lucky and willing to persevere, true talent will come of it? That's how and why I read.

I don't have yahoo, but feel free to hit me up through a private message (if you don't mind talking to a dumb teenager ;p) because I'm extremely sociable as well.

Tell Jack I said hello. Or just give him a scratch between the ears for me...

I'm glad you're happily married. How long have you been married, if you don't mind me asking? One of my current obsessions is figuring out what separates bad marriages from good ones.

[ardeano_1864]

Cien
I've been married 3 times. This last for 2 and one half years. To figure out now before you get married is the best quest that you can do for yourself, future mate and children... not to mention society as a whole.
Not that I have any great love for "Society", yet knowledge before commitment is indespensible. Words, lives reviewed and sorted out in your own mind may gain you the wisdom that others have gained through pain and suffering.
Think for yourself young friend, be always watchful, mild mannered and choose battles very carefully when they come, for they will come. There is a time for all things under the sun yet... wisdom is indespensible.

[Cien]

I currently live with two people who have been married for thirty-three years, I think. They still seem not only love each other, but be IN love with each other. The husband's screen saver says "I love [insert name here]" and he constantly refers to her as the most beautiful woman in the world. I am thrilled to be around them because I feel like I can somehow learn something of a happy marriage from them -- but all I've gathered so far is that they stuck to it even when most people would divorce, and they came out happy on the other side. I'm wondering if perseverence is merely the key or if it is something else.

I'm thinking, in my case, that the thing I might value the most would be 1) a person who would be a good father 2) a person who does not stay bitter. In case a marriage would not last, I would still want any children I may have to be gifted with two good parents who do not hate each other.

[ardeano_1864]

Cien
See James first chapter and read about perserverance.