A song that
digs those memories out, even if long buried, dusts them off,
and makes them fresh and vivid once again?
The photo composite below, for me, reflects the last lines of the beautiful Billie Holiday song "As Time Goes By" recorded in 1944 ~ "The World Will Always Welcome Lovers - As Time Goes By." My photo composite covers about 40 years of our 47 year marriage.
And during that 40 year span, this second stanza from Billie Holiday's song proved over and over to be true. "And when two lovers woo, they still say, 'I love you' - On that you can rely, No matter what the future brings - As Time Goes By."
Anyone who has a marriage which has lasted 20, 30, 40, 50 years or longer will agree that during those years there have been times when you were soaring to the stars - and other times when it felt as though the world is sitting on your shoulders and you will never recover.
When those times come, you know that Billie Holiday sang the truth all those years ago, when she sang: "And when two lovers woo, they still say, 'I love you' - On that you can rely, No matter what the future brings - As Time Goes By."
That is what my composite speaks to me, in both the soaring to the stars times in our marriage, and during those weight of the world times, "they still say, 'I love you' No matter what the future brings - AS TIME GOES BY."
My composite also reflects the beginning of our relationship, in 1977, when Dory and I were dating. There is one memory from that time which will never grow dusty. Dory loved singing and was active in Filipino Performing Arts groups. The groups performed at functions and event around the Southern California area, singing and dancing Filipino cultural dances and songs.
Once she sang a duet of "The Impossible Dream" with a friend during a reception for the governor of California at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
And then there were those special times when she sang just to me - as we were driving around on a Sunday afternoon, or going on a date. My favorite was the song "Memories" from the Barbra Streisand / Robert Redford movie "The Way We Were."
And, yes, there is a special stanza from that song which speaks to me of those precious times: “Memories / Light the corners of my mind / Misty water-colored memories / Of The Way We Were.”
But to bring that stanza up to date in my photo composite, I had to make one slight change to that phrase. While in the movie Streisand sang "Of the way we were" because in the movie she and Robert Redford (actually their characters) closed the movie by getting a divorce, but remaining friends.
Dory and I have to change that one line, for in our lives it reads "Of The Way We ARE."
That covers our first 47 years and we are just getting started. Watch as we fly by that 50th Anniversary date - and start counting again. All I can say is, "THANK YOU, LORD!"
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
The photo composite below, for me, reflects the last lines of the beautiful Billie Holiday song "As Time Goes By" recorded in 1944 ~ "The World Will Always Welcome Lovers - As Time Goes By." My photo composite covers about 40 years of our 47 year marriage.
And during that 40 year span, this second stanza from Billie Holiday's song proved over and over to be true. "And when two lovers woo, they still say, 'I love you' - On that you can rely, No matter what the future brings - As Time Goes By."
Anyone who has a marriage which has lasted 20, 30, 40, 50 years or longer will agree that during those years there have been times when you were soaring to the stars - and other times when it felt as though the world is sitting on your shoulders and you will never recover.
When those times come, you know that Billie Holiday sang the truth all those years ago, when she sang: "And when two lovers woo, they still say, 'I love you' - On that you can rely, No matter what the future brings - As Time Goes By."
That is what my composite speaks to me, in both the soaring to the stars times in our marriage, and during those weight of the world times, "they still say, 'I love you' No matter what the future brings - AS TIME GOES BY."
My composite also reflects the beginning of our relationship, in 1977, when Dory and I were dating. There is one memory from that time which will never grow dusty. Dory loved singing and was active in Filipino Performing Arts groups. The groups performed at functions and event around the Southern California area, singing and dancing Filipino cultural dances and songs.
Once she sang a duet of "The Impossible Dream" with a friend during a reception for the governor of California at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
And then there were those special times when she sang just to me - as we were driving around on a Sunday afternoon, or going on a date. My favorite was the song "Memories" from the Barbra Streisand / Robert Redford movie "The Way We Were."
And, yes, there is a special stanza from that song which speaks to me of those precious times: “Memories / Light the corners of my mind / Misty water-colored memories / Of The Way We Were.”
But to bring that stanza up to date in my photo composite, I had to make one slight change to that phrase. While in the movie Streisand sang "Of the way we were" because in the movie she and Robert Redford (actually their characters) closed the movie by getting a divorce, but remaining friends.
Dory and I have to change that one line, for in our lives it reads "Of The Way We ARE."
That covers our first 47 years and we are just getting started. Watch as we fly by that 50th Anniversary date - and start counting again. All I can say is, "THANK YOU, LORD!"
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
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