Lots of stories:  Hair-raising adventures, long passionate kisses, insane races to make deadlines, ridiculously over-the-top expenditures.  

Long walks together on the beaches where relationships end, only to discover that true love is alive even when you can’t see it…sand in your toes as you walk back to try it all over again…

Discovering you’ve locked the keys in your car after searching in the parking lot for a half an hour just to find it.  Life-long battles against overwhelming odds, consistently making the same mistakes and still ending up OK.  Deep callouses on my finger tips and knees and the rich graciousness of God, family and friends.

Throw in some great songs a few good lines, some fall-on-the-floor-laughter, moments of soul-deep intimacy, experiencing (and sometimes making) great art, never getting arrested for any of it and never having a restraining order issued (not much trash left behind or wakes from the stern of the boat)…Sad to say there is a single, subtle 'tell' in my poker game and I cry at the drop of a hat...

I've changed my perspectives as many times as I changed my underwear.  Always willing to risk my dignity, but never my integrity.

Maybe it is best stated in this quotable quote from the end of 2015: "Life used to be an adjective, now it's a verb"...

Keith England is following