“I Do ...” The Poem of Us

         The Early Years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Going to Tony and Chris Crocker Janueski’s wedding reception

 

 

 

 

 

So Happy Together ...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheap beer, cheap wine, good whisky sometimes, and great friends …

 

Stephen, Kathy, and GHS English teachers Karen Simmons and Mike Seltenright in the front row, plus band teacher John Brannim just above Kathy, with his performing band.


 

 

 

 

 

Still young here,

but somehow a lot older …   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the clock begins

to tick a little faster …
 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

And faster yet,
every year

While Young Love Begins to Gray ...


 

(below) A frame from a special video we made for a special person who turned 50 in 1998 …

Don’t even try to guess

what else was in

that video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Later the same year, we celebrated our 25^th Anniversary in Indiana …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And in Kathy’s home

town of Greencastle, PA

 

 

 

December 31, 1999: Even the Millennium has been aging …


But isn’t each expired day the portal to a new dawn?

 

 

 

Yes! And three months later, my young wife of near-27 years turned 50

Yet Youth Flourishes ...

 

 

One son, one daughter in law, and five grandchildren by 2010 …
 

The year we moved back to our Indiana home, for good

Finally, three years later, both in our sixties, married now forty years, and with a sixth grandchild, we pause to remember the past ...

Best Woman Kathy’s sister, Cheryl Koons Winger; Best Man, James Oliver Burns

And to know the present, 

 Welcome the future, 

 And especially I pause to say:

 

 

Thank you Kathy,  

for  

the Poem of Us 

that took forty years to write

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Rowe welcomes correspondence of all sort at StephenRowe.OriGraphics@yahoo.com

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