10 Reasons To Love This Woman
1) She’s really smart without being pretentious, and teaches me many things about living well.
2) If she has something to say she says it. Getting her to stop is sometimes a problem, but it's usually worth it to hear her out.
3) She’s self-aware and helps others be the same way. She knows herself. She figured me out pretty quickly, too.
4) She’s compassionate toward others. She gives her time, her love, and shares what she has with others freely, including certain members of the animal kingdom.
5) She’s sometimes a very silly person, and knows it. She laughs at herself with as much gusto as she laughs at anything. She knows irony when it happens. She finds me most amusing when I'm trying to be serious.
6) She’s very snoozely. (That means that when I snuggle her, she snuggles back.)
7) She has an obsession with 80’s music that I neither share nor understand, but it’s cute anyway. Her erotic dreams involve shoe shopping with Pierce Brosnan. (That's from listening to too much 'Dead or Alive'. )
8) I’ve never seen her pray, and she doesn’t even refer to gods when she’s angry.
9) I’ve seldom seen her rush to judgment about anything.
10) She is a great friend to all her friends, and if there is anyone on Earth who doesn’t like her, I haven’t met or heard about them. Those friends are good people, too. She is surrounded by people of good character and many kindnesses.
I love you Janice. You are my life and my light, and I don't want to ever be without you (except for those times that I do something really dumb, and you're kind of mad.)
posted by Shlomo Leib Aronovitz @ 5:41 PM
21 Comments
21 Comments:
Shlomo, this is a beautiful post. You're lucky to have her, and she's lucky to have you.
Dare I say lots of jealous ladies out there tonight. :)
You married a zhyd!(she never refers to G-d was the give-away)And if she loves 80'S music see me new homepage 1st pump up the volume.
This was very sweet. You obviously found your besheret.
Well, after the earlier Mazal Tovs, I spose that would be the thing to say. I mean, you didn't say you were getting married... but you're obviously quite in love with a really good person, so marriage or ?? Mazal Tov!
Seriously Reb Shleimeh, you're a good man (except for that serial killing thing, but I understand you're working on that) and I do sincerely wish you a beautiful and fabulous life in every way. And if I wasn't finishing a 48 hour day I'd have something witty to say here.
mnuez
I've often said of myself that I've made many mistakes in life, but I married well. I always know I can trust someone who did as well as I.
A doff of the chapeau and a courtly bow to you and Janice both.
Dare I say lots of jealous "MEN" out there tonight. :)
SL, lots of love...
What a nice public declaration of love. Hope Janice got to see your post!
As Crosby, Still, Nash (& Young) once sang: "...love the one you're with..." And you certainly do!
Dear Shlomo,
To me this revelation is the evidence of your liberation of the hassidic mental yoke. I don’t see an hassid writing something this heart-warming and personal about himself and his wife. Congratulations to you and Janice and with the happiness you’ve found.
Many thanks for the warm and heartfelt comments! Would it change your thoughts on the matter to know that she isn't Jewish?
Janice has NO religious background at all, being thoroughly secular through and through. She is also one of those progressive, labor-friendly liberal types that doesn't condone greed or warmongering. She is more polite than I am about most things.
At some point a man has decide whether he wants a woman to sleep with, or a woman that he wants to wake up to. They don't always look the same, and I had to ignore many of my preconceived notions of the type of woman I would choose to love. Turns out that Love chooses you, and not the other way around!
Don't worry Shlomo,
I didn't accuse her of being Jewish for one movement.
What a beautiful post! And a beautiful woman too :-) Congratulations!
--eemie
Damn it Solomon, that's not a denial. You're not Jewish either, we know that. What some people are probably wondering is "did her mother's mother consider herself Jewish". Religious background hasn't a damn thing to do with the issue, it's a racial question, you know that.
And of course mazal tov either way buddy.
mnuez
do you need any reason for not liking her? here's one- she's ugly
My apologies to everyone!
Unlike myself (1st generation Amerikansky), her family has been here since the 1620's. So when I talk about my father o'h and the 'old country', she doesn't get it at all. To her, the old country is right here! There is a cultural disconnect that we bridge with moderate success.
There are some very funny details to how me met and eventually fell in love, since at first we kind of both repulsed each other, making bad impressions all the way around.
Our first real date was the emergency room!
SL,
The best things come from unexpected sources.
Len,
I don't know about goods, betters, or bests, but I think it has to do with being internally ready to handle happiness of any kind. I have dated so many wonderful women in the past and I know that I wasn't in the 'place' where I could accept what was being offered to me in terms of love and companionship.
It's a grand thing to grow into someone who can grow with someone else. I have always been a selfish and self-centered person, and sometimes, it amazes me how much life has changed things. Janice has been through her 'samsara' as well, and her active and ongoing self awareness is a profound example for me to follow.
If I were to have closed my eyes and envisioned a person to love, it would not have been her. The foundation of this is unusual to me and I approach each day without expectation or demands. Whether it lasts or it fades, I am at peace with all of it.
Kol Tuv
I am very happy for you Shlomo
Love does find you
A big MT and the two of you finding each other sure adds a point to the survive of the fittest camp!!! Oh and BTW does she have a sister (-:
Shlomo,
First of all, she isn't the first shikza that I've dated. Secondly, would you want me corrupting a Jewish woman with my apikorsis?
As to your Shoah reference, I'm not surprised at all that you made such a remark. Do you know somehting that the rest of us don't? Is the US planning to put Jews in camps? And if I marry a Jew, will I also not be sent to lager? Maybe by forming the right alliances now, I coudl be avoiding the fate of everyone else?
You're a very silly person, Shlomo. Yiddishkeit will survive without me. Stop being so serious. You're beginning to remind me of myself!
Kol Tuv
Funny you should say that Sol, when I read shlomo's rant it kinna sounded like it was you doing the writing. I don't think that was actually the case, but I dunno. I'm pretty sure I saw you do that once on HHeretic.
And on the same subject, I just noticed here on the comment page that Amshi's icon is Jabo. What the fuck's with that?!
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