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<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nDust covered the cardboard shoebox.\u00a0 A faded pale green hair ribbon tied around it.\u00a0 It lay forgotten in a secluded corner of the cluttered attic.\u00a0 Someone wrote \u201cLetters\u201d on its cover.\u00a0 Several similarly penciled initials were no longer readable.<\/p>\n
The house\u2019s new owner cleaned out the attic.\u00a0 The shoebox along with the accumulation of previous owners was hauled out of the house and heaped in piles alongside the road.<\/p>\n
The trash men were behind schedule when they hurriedly began tossing the discarded items into the truck.\u00a0 In their haste the shoebox was overlooked and left behind.\u00a0\u00a0 Somehow it was seen by a neighbor.\u00a0 The finder knew of my interest in anything old.\u00a0 A few days later I held the untied box.\u00a0\u00a0 The ribbon in a knot slid off the end.\u00a0 I slowly removed the top.<\/p>\n
Crammed in it was an assortment of cards, letters and even a few brittle newspaper articles.\u00a0 They appeared very old.\u00a0 I could soon see they were all hand written.\u00a0 Apparently exchanged between a wife and her husband.\u00a0 Interestingly enough written not during war time or even some other period of lengthy separation.\u00a0 I continued to carefully read them.<\/p>\n
The couple were exchanging their thoughts on paper on many meaningful occasions such as birthdays, holidays and especially on their wedding anniversary.\u00a0 This exchange spanning over five decades.<\/p>\n
This simple country man found these exchanges deeply moving in their simple and heartfelt eloquence.\u00a0 In total they encompassed an amazingly loving relationship that everybody could envy.\u00a0 Beautiful expressions of love that I felt should somehow be shared with every couple embarking on their married life\u2019s journey together.<\/p>\n
When I read the last of the letters I was somehow disappointed. \u00a0I wanted to read more about their amazing lives together.\u00a0 All I could think of was this unknown couple had left an incredibly touching and beautiful testimony to the vital importance of marriage.\u00a0 Their love for each other continued to grow and blossom into new flowers as their years together sped by.<\/p>\n
They were open and comfortable exchanging their thoughts about each other.\u00a0 Not always an easy thing to do especially for the man.\u00a0 But he did well despite occasionally hard to read handwriting and spelling errors.\u00a0 At a time when men were supposed to be strong and silent this unknown husband was apparently not afraid to bare his inner thoughts to the love of his life.<\/p>\n
Reading this exchange of deep felt love between this man and woman subtly encouraged this simple country man to try to be a far better husband than he knows he unfortunately has proven to be.\u00a0\u00a0 With the institution of marriage under attack, divorce rampant and love on the rocks, it\u2019s uplifting to share by reading these exchanges the incredible joys that a loving marriage can bestow on two people.<\/p>\n
Together in clear and undisguised expressions they shared an extremely powerful physical attraction for each other.\u00a0 This, combined with many common interests, was all strongly tied together by vitally held and daily practiced spiritual beliefs.\u00a0 They were not only passionate lovers of live and each other but were each other\u2019s very best friends.\u00a0 Their marriage was unquestionably extremely unique and envied by many others they encountered along life\u2019s journey.\u00a0 They shared this love with apparently a broad swath of humanity in many different ways.<\/p>\n
Knowing this from people who wrote them, I\u2019m sure this couple wouldn\u2019t mind if I selected two of their many letters to each other.\u00a0 What follows is an exchange on their 47th<\/sup> wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n Another \u201cHoney moon\u201d day with my one and only LOVE!\u00a0 A honeymoon for 47 years!\u00a0 It can\u2019t getter than that!—-Y9u make everybody<\/span> you touch so much better & sparkling for the experience.\u00a0 You are so extremely rare and so prized for your wonderfully exciting personality and zest for life.\u00a0 You love it all from spotted fawns to beautiful flowers, kitty cats and best (worst???) of all ME<\/span>!\u00a0 What a rare and incredibly exciting experience to be your friend, husband and admirer<\/span>!\u00a0 BRAVO<\/span>!<\/p>\n Now his wife:<\/p>\n We\u2019ve filled in a great number of pages in our \u201cmarriage book.\u201d\u00a0 They make a very happy chronicle of two tightly united, loving people.\u00a0 What more can anyone want than what we have together!\u00a0 I know we have many, many more wonderful experiences ahead in the years to come, and I look forward to the happiness they are bound to contain.<\/p>\n Thanks for all you do on a daily basis to enrich our lives.\u00a0 You make our \u201coasis\u201d here so beautiful and enliven every day with your rich presence and generous love.\u00a0 You are in a word wonderful<\/span>.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad we\u2019re traveling life\u2019s journey together.<\/p>\n This simple country man feels so extremely fortunate and blessed that his friend gave him the dusty shoebox.\u00a0 Its contents opened his eyes to two remarkable people and their amazing love for each other.\u00a0 They established an unbelievably high bar of marriage excellence.\u00a0 A bar most of us can only dream about.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure this simple country man will try much harder in the future after reading this unknown couple\u2019s exchanges.\u00a0 Maybe others will too.<\/p>\n Hobie Morris is a Brookfield resident and simple country man.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Musings of a Simple Country Man By Hobie Morris Dust covered the cardboard shoebox.\u00a0 A faded pale green hair ribbon tied around it.\u00a0 It lay forgotten in a secluded corner of the cluttered attic.\u00a0 Someone wrote \u201cLetters\u201d on its cover.\u00a0 Several similarly penciled initials were no longer readable. The house\u2019s new owner cleaned out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}