My Wife's Life/More Than I Can Stand

My wife’s life is like a run-on sentence. I am her punctuation.

Start, slow, fast, pause, ponder, restart, reframe, intro, middle, outro, prioritize, accentuate, decelerate, stop.

Stop.

Not an easy thing to do, when the world is on your shoulders. Sounds like a Bond movie “The World On Your Shoulders” starring… (or is it a soap opera?)

She excels at things. And people are drawn to her. I have said before that it is my job to fend them off, but it is tough when she compiles it on herself. You can not have it all, especially in this American world. There is just too much to capture and it is impossible to have it all – that is where the run-on sentence comes in.

With a run-on sentence, everything blends together. There is no distinction. All the words become mumbled and jumbled and bleed together. As in laundry, when all the bright, vibrant colors become grey when combined without separation. Nothing is special, nothing is sacred, nothing is relevant. The culture becomes gobbledygook.

So, (I tell my wife), do slow down, do figure out those things that really matter and focus on them. Get your rest, eat good food, allow a framework to dictate your day and don’t allow it to get altered, not even by me (gulp).

Also, in regards to three four boys, be sure to get your girl time on, but don’t count on us to provide it for you… overall it isn’t in our/my nature (let me explain)...

- I hope your friends find you as you find them in those margins – allow your friends to help you enhance your groove, just don't be searchin' to get your groove back.

Just because:

• we boys are an overwhelming toxin that doesn’t really go away
• we boys are the reinforcements - even when they aren't called in
• we boys are locusts that swarm and override your drive, bending your will like a wind weathered tree

and one of us boys ate that last piece of cake - it doesn't mean we don't love ya. (In the cake case, it just means we were hungry... for cake).

The best bones we may be able to throw may be occasional flowers, odd shaped jewelry and Christmas gift certificates to the spa. You deserve better and we mean well, sometimes our thought/action process doesn't function properly. So, do make room for yourself and your toes.

Hopefully, someday, one of the boys will mature and relate this better.

What I am saying, is that we can add various punctuation (and color) into your life and it may not always be what you expect. I can easily add the periods, the questions, the commas, the quotation marks, colons, overall structure – but it takes time to do so and as I proof your paper...

you move on to the next paragraph.