love words weekend

 Melissa Dunstan Photography - a Sedona wedding that makes me crave Arizona.

from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin:

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"Love is a temporary madness. 

It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. 

And when it subsides you have to make a decision. 

You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together

that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. 

Because this is what love is. 

Love is not breathlessness, 

it is not excitement, 

it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. 

That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. 

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, 

and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. 

Your mother and I had it, 

we had roots that grew towards each other underground, 

and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches 

we found that we were one tree and not two."

*note:  freaking goosebumps reading that excerpt.  It makes me think of my husband.  I am all sorts of nervous about have our baby this week...there is so much unknown....but with Tommy by my side I know we will be just fine.  It won't just be the two of us anymore...there will be three of "us" now.  Wow...such an overwhelming sensation.  I feel like flying.