The vast potential of coconut drinks comes not in the vessel, so much as the delivery system for the sweet blotting effect; they’re all about love.
TAGS: 1st sentence, love, alcohol, coconuts, potentialMy (now deceased) disabled husband and I were married for 43 years and loved each other very much, so you should have understood that when I filed for divorce and tried to get him summarily and forcibly removed from the family home of 40 years by falsely accusing him of dangerous homosexual phone sex and by making up false stories of physical violence against me, it was just my way of showing him love and trying to get him proper medical care; you should have represented his interests better—or at least gotten a bigger retainer before defending him from me.
TAGS: love, legal, divorce, marriage, homosexuality, dead, spouse, phone sexFive years after Roger’s arranged marriage to the deaf-mute girl from Bakersfield, his own lifelong dream came true when their one and only child, Chester, upon reaching the age of three, told his family to call him The Little Tramp, and announced that he would spend the rest of his years in complete silence, wearing only black oversized suits and imitating the antics of Charlie Chaplain; Roger, as much as he enjoyed the quiet, soon found that not all dreams should come true, and that as much as he loved his son, he would never be comfortable with the young boy’s new mustache.
TAGS: love, dreams, children, marriage, quiet, Bakersfield, charlie chaplain, deaf-mute, uncomfortable, mustaches
Capture it before it goes, the wind, his thoughts, his smile, the moment, the memory, the last time she ever spoke your name, the way she kissed you and held your face, capture it before it’s gone, before you say goodbye.
TAGS: love, death, life, regret, memories, appreciation… a man who has lost his wife of forty years, a man whose love is so profound that many months after her passing he still keeps a place at the table for her ‘in case she drops by’ and who, when he speaks of her, doesn’t even notice the tears that stream down his face.
TAGS: love, sorrow, grief, tearsShe spoke of being older, she said it was time to write about what it had all meant, her hands trembled slightly as she made the coffee, yet she clambered over boulders to bring you lemons from her garden, and hugging her goodbye felt like trying to hold a rose in your arms.
The room was beauty and light, full of energy and some sort of unheard happy laughter, photos and hats lined the walls and the easel and desk were covered with paintings that led you to another world; it was back to being just a room.
Bob had been both loved and hated by the various mother-in-laws he’d had over the years; he’d had similar experiences with house cats.
TAGS: cats, love, bob, hate, mother-in-lawAfter not practicing the piano for many months, she sat down and began to try to play and, blissfully, she was not overwhelmed by the woman’s memory, just filled with it; filled with love, uplifted by her grace and blessed by her memory.
TAGS: love, music, memory
“Maybe I’m in love with you,” she said to the metal bird, whose only reply was to hand her a peanut butter cookie with one twisted and somewhat rusty claw.
TAGS: love, affair, rust, cookie, clawThe young girl sat contentedly on the muddled brown carpet, her shoulder leaning on the big, comfortable chair, a small dog resting nearby with his furry chin on a pair of slippers, and the girl watched as the older woman concentrated, back bent and shoulders hunched, creating something out of what seemed like nothing.
TAGS: love, family, memories, sewingMemory is so vague, so fragile, so questionable, yet I am sure I can still clearly see that silhouette of him, the first time i met him, standing in the doorway, behind the cheap flyscreen, looking so tall, so elegant, so much like the man who would and has changed my life for all eternity.
TAGS: love, memoryTime passes … and then you find yourself at a place when the memory of her fills you, not with grief, nor with loss, but with this thoughtful, beautiful and, above all, fragile feeling of melancholy.
TAGS: love, memories, grief, melancholy“I thought you’d be more loving,” Timmy told the turtle as he dropped it into the lake.
TAGS: animals, love, turtle, timmy, disappointment, pets, lakeAs each precious petal floated into the air, Becky caressed them lovingly and swooped them above her head, and as they went by they squeaked, squealed and danced in delight, twirling around and entwining the shimmering figure in the centre of the maelstrom.
TAGS: harlequin, love, caress, dance, petals, shimmer, swooping, lillies, maelstrom, BeckySometimes music makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you dance, sometimes it makes you hum, but sometimes, oh sometimes, it makes you burn; burn with love, burn with fire, burn with pain.
TAGS: love, music, burnJuan staggered out of bed at 2am, rinsed the brine off the huge turkey resting in the cooler and fired up the smoker knowing this beautiful bird would need to cook at least 13 hours.
TAGS: turkey, love, holidays, cookingI bought a mango yesterday and only just noticed that it has a little pink love heart on it that reads “Love Fruit”.
TAGS: fruit, love, mangoesIt’s sweet, crumbly, can be cut into neat little slices, stored in the pantry, eaten with coffee, is baked in a very hot oven, … um…
TAGS: love, cake, analogies
All watched over by billionaires of loving grace, Henry emptied the change from his underwear drawer and went grocery shopping.
TAGS: Henry, love, underwear, grace, money, billionaire, shopping