October 2, 2008


This Is Love

Yesterday I was doing some cleanup on my hard drive and came across this picture of Daryl.  He posted it here back in July, after finding it in an old family photo album, and I saved a copy on my work computer.

I looked at this photo, and I was filled with the very love I felt for Daryl when I first came to know him, nearly 29 years ago.  The kind of love that makes a person feel light and weak and hot.  The kind of love that feels as if it might kill you.

This post is for all readers who wonder if an all-consuming love really can last forever.  The answer is yes.  Yes.

posted by Cindy Scroggins in relationships 

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9 Responses to “This Is Love”

  1. Sheila Ryan on October 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Cindy, that photo is the bestest. We can never have it too many times. Nor can we have too much of your love for Daryl nor of his for you.

    Okay. Time to pause. My mascara’s getting all ruint.

  2. Phil Bebbington on October 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Cindy, this is delightful, both visually and emotionally. The thing I find about love is it kinda of knows no boundaries, it feels the same at 50 (my age) as it did at 15 (my age then). It seems to love and be loved is magical and should be grasped with both hands and lived to fullest.

    I may have mentioned them here before but whenever the power of love comes up I think of this tune and the words “The sad irony of Love is how so seldom you feel it, yet its all you dream about, night and day.”

  3. Cindy Scroggins on October 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Thank you, dear Sheila and Phil. I felt a bit indulgent posting this, but I had to do it lest I explode. Exploding Cindys can be messy, and then the cats would fight for the remains and, you know, it would get all unpleasant.

  4. Phil Bebbington on October 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Cindy…not like me to reveal my soft underside but I am basically a soft SOB at heart and your photo has me almost weeping man tears…it may have been grit…not sure!

    I gave up exploding a few years ago, exactly for the reasons you outlined…it became an intestinal free for all…not pretty!

  5. Amanda Mae Meyncke on October 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Thank you Cindy, I want to believe in that so very much, and it means something powerful that someone else has found it.

  6. Michael Grant Smith on October 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    I don’t mind seeing that picture again.

  7. Sheila Ryan on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    I don’t mind hearing Cindy speak of true love again.

  8. Mike Dresser on October 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    True love rode in on a motorcycle, dressed in denim.

  9. India on October 5th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    I am always glad to get another stanza in “The Ballad of Darryl and Cindy.” It’s a terrific song.

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