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Another quote from Abundance, although not the original one I was intending upon. But I could not resist using this one because I just about hurt myself laughing when I was reading it this morning, and now strongly suspect my housemates think I'm a loon.
"The stars are winking at us."
"I do not look up, when I can look down into the face of my dear and generous husband."
Swayed by my tenderness, he shifts his weight from foot to foot. "Perhaps you'll need a lighthouse in your hamlet." the King whimsically remarks, "lest anyone be lost at sea?"
"At sea?"
"I imagine your pond expansive enough to suggest a miniature sea."
For that good thought, I throw down a bouquet of spring lilacs to my husband and bid him bury his nose therein.
Almost I look forward to the time when he shall plow me again. Suddenly a gurgle of laughter falls from my lips. When I yet lived at home and I was sent a portrait of the Dauphin at his plow - was that what was meant? That he would someday plow my body, be my husbandman who brings forth abundance from the fields he tills?
"I shall dress as a shepherdess," I say. I am glad the dusky night masks my spotted face.
"And I as a shepherd."
I blow him a kiss.
"The stars are winking at us."
"I do not look up, when I can look down into the face of my dear and generous husband."
Swayed by my tenderness, he shifts his weight from foot to foot. "Perhaps you'll need a lighthouse in your hamlet." the King whimsically remarks, "lest anyone be lost at sea?"
"At sea?"
"I imagine your pond expansive enough to suggest a miniature sea."
For that good thought, I throw down a bouquet of spring lilacs to my husband and bid him bury his nose therein.
Almost I look forward to the time when he shall plow me again. Suddenly a gurgle of laughter falls from my lips. When I yet lived at home and I was sent a portrait of the Dauphin at his plow - was that what was meant? That he would someday plow my body, be my husbandman who brings forth abundance from the fields he tills?
"I shall dress as a shepherdess," I say. I am glad the dusky night masks my spotted face.
"And I as a shepherd."
I blow him a kiss.