Life, love and geese.

Life, I'm told has many milestones that you look back fondly on and say... "That was a turning point" and then you get a warm fuzzy, fluffy feeling in your tummy. Birth I don't remember. So milestone 1 for me was really for those around me. Haven't had death, marriage or kids yet (no... Not in that order.) But today I knelt down in the snow next to a river filled with hundreds of geese and I asked the woman of my dreams to marry me. She responded with a resounding YES! So I am officially off the market... No more bids will be taken, "Sold! to the Canadian girl with the blue eyes."

It's an unusual feeling. Knowing that you have found somebody that you are going to spend the rest of your life with. Somebody who you will share the good and the bad with. I know it will take some getting used to.

People, I think, get used to being alone. To having a little walled in shelter from the rest of the world. From intimate human contact with a significant other. Fear of letting yourself be loved can do that. Fear has a way of robbing you from what you actually hope and long for. I think every person has to get to that point where they say "I'm not going to sabotage myself any longer. I'm going to love and let myself be loved." It takes guts to do that. Copious amounts of that stuff deep down in your belly that makes you move forward.

So today I did that. I came upon one of my own milestones the beginning of many more for me. This is the woman I'll laugh with, cry with, fight with, make up with. The lady I will have children with and grow old with. I would never have any of that unless I put aside fear.... To all who read this...

"Step out! Be strong take courage."