Into the Light - Ted Krever: Writing and other forms of torture

Four years ago today I met a woman who challenged me, told me off, laughed at my jokes and then did me one better, showed me new ways to see the world and shed new light on the ways I saw it.

Most importantly, she saw in me the person I’d been working so hard to become and encouraged me to be even more. And accepted me as I am, complete with warts and hump.
We’ll be getting married soon. It’ll be my second marriage and they say a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. But I’ve been saying something else to people when the subject comes up: just skip the first marriage and go direct to the second. You have so much clearer of a concept of what you want and what you really need.

So Happy Anniversary, sweetheart. Here’s to a bigger world, together.

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Into the Light — 8 Comments

Barry Nisman on August 13, 2015 at 9:01 am said:

Having traveled quite a bit of the road with you, sometimes intermittently, surely, I can tell you that something rather extraordinary has happened. Ted, you and I did a lot more than sing together, not that there’s anything wrong with that. We did speak, well into the night, sometimes in a diner at 3 am, and we share frustrations, aspirations, observations, and often we detoured back to the frustrations. There was an awful lot you were looking for, in yourself mostly, but you wanted a partner who would make a difference, allowing you your individuality while also helping you to make changes. These were changes you had in mind as well as those that are hidden from our ‘agendas.’……..When you met Clare, and we would take a pause in the music and do catch up, what’s with you, what’s with me, you spoke of Clare in a way different from the 40 some odd years prior. There was something special, something very different. Now that 4 years have gone by, and you have announced a formalization of something you guys have been working on, it’s better than fantastic (is there something better than fantastic ?……….hmmmm, could be ‘awesome’?) that you guys are making some legal changes to a relationship that has been evolving no matter what the relationship was formally called. This doesn’t happen often, where someone you know, especially someone you know very well, has found a lot of what he was looking for…………Awesome 🙂

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Barry Nisman on August 13, 2015 at 9:03 am said:

ps I thought there was an ‘edit’ button so I could correct a type or two, but there isn’t. Sorry for that.

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ted krever on August 13, 2015 at 9:04 am said:

No, it’s called ‘typo’–is that what you wanted to correct?

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- Barry Nisman on August 13, 2015 at 9:18 am said:
  
  no, that was irony…..there was ‘….we share frustrations, aspirations…..” and of course that was meant to be ‘shared’…. 🙂
  
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ted krever on August 13, 2015 at 9:25 am said:

I still like typo better…swordfish…and Hungadunga…

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- Barry Nisman on August 13, 2015 at 10:39 am said:
  
  Ted, you could owe me 5000 bucks, have insulted the integrity of my Uncle Phil (okay, he has none, but how would YOU know that), and told me you rooted for SF Giants, so long as you put a Hungadunga in there you’d still be my favorite Theo……
  
  PS Note: I don’t think at certain private, connubial moments, use of Hungadunga would be well advised. Then again, meeting Claire was a delight; but whose to know, maybe Hungadunga is an ‘attention grabber’ if you follow my drift, and I think that you do.
  
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Elisabeth Lohninger on August 13, 2015 at 10:05 am said:

Gorgeous pic, beautifully written. I am so very very happy for you two! Can’t believe it’s been 4 years already! Congratulations!

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sandra bunting on August 13, 2015 at 4:47 pm said:

so happy for you. Sande

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