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thepenguinpress: A Valentine’s Day Tale from Storycorps LAUREN...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:12:04 -0500

A Valentine’s Day Tale from Storycorps

LAUREN WEITZMAN, 50, talks with her husband, STUART DRESCHER, 61

Lauren Weitzman: I was thirty-five years old and living in Richmond, Virginia. There wasn’t anyone significant in my life, and somehow a lifelong partner didn’t seem to be in the cards for me; I was coming to peace with that. Then I bumped into an old friend at a conference. I started talking with him, but somebody else was standing there.

Stuart Drescher: I don’t think that you looked at me once during the whole conversation, but I was fascinated by you. And when you walked away, I said, “I have to meet her.”

Our friend said, “She usually goes to the social hours at the end of the afternoon presentations,” which I never participated in, but I showed up. And there I was, talking to you for the first time. There was this fascination with you that was almost magnetic. It felt like we’d known each other for a very, very long time.

Lauren: I was a bit dismayed to realize that you were living in Salt Lake City. There was the excitement of just feeling really close and connected, but then we had to go our separate ways. And so we began this long-distance thing: I was in Richmond, Virginia, you were in Salt Lake City, and our airline carrier was Delta. So we’d either fly through Cincinnati or we’d fly through Atlanta. Somebody—I think it was me, you think it was you—decided that since we’re traveling through these airports, Wouldn’t it be fun to leave notes for each other that the person could find on their next way across?

Stuart: We’d write a bit of poetry or some form of appreciation, or just a thought. Then we would fold them up and tuck them under a chair in the loading areas and send a map to the other person with the concourse and the gate area, and X marks the spot.

Lauren: Although we’d only known each other for a few months at this point, it didn’t seem right to spend Thanksgiving apart. It was a wonderful holiday, and when I flew home I knew I wanted to leave you something. So as I was heading from Salt Lake to Cincinnati, the only thing I could think to put on the note was “Will you marry me?”

I wasn’t ready to tell you about the note, but I was definitely ready to write it. It was probably the longest I ever sat with a decision. [Laughs.] But you’re a patient man, and in March I finally gave you a map to find the note.

Stuart: I flew to Cincinnati, and my plane was delayed in landing. I found myself running down the concourse, hoping to get to the next plane in time. I wasrunning at a pretty good clip, and all of a sudden I remembered the note. I was debating, Should I stop and risk my connection? But I had to see if I could grab that note. So I peeled into the gate area and identified which chair it was. There was a fellow sitting there, wearing a very expensive suit, and I walked over and said, “Excuse me, I think I dropped my pen when I was sitting here previously,” and I reached under the seat. I grabbed the note, took off running down the hallway, and got to the gate just before the door swung shut.

Lauren: Back in Richmond, I was thinking: Would you find the note? What were you going to think when you got it? I ducked out of a faculty meeting early and drove out to the Richmond airport. I had a big bunch of flowers, and I felt just like a bride waiting for her groom.

I still remember you walking off the plane, and the minute I saw you I knew you had found the note. You just had that glow. I had the bouquet of flowers, and we gave each other a big hug, and you said, “Yes!”

Recorded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 19, 2009.

"Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:44:20 -0500

“Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via thepenguinpress)

"Writing gives me great feelings of pleasure. There’s a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:43:00 -0500

“Writing gives me great feelings of pleasure. There’s a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It’s like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way. It’s very physical. I get antsy. I jiggle my feet a lot, get up a lot, tap my fingers on the keyboard, check my e-mail. Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it’s working and the rhythm’s there, it does feel like magic to me.”

- Susan Orlean (via thepenguinpress)

skinnymeanman: ellieinitgeez: I am finally home from college...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:16:21 -0500

skinnymeanman:

ellieinitgeez:

I am finally home from college (not too sure whats going on with my top)

Don’t know if I’ll ever get over her eyes.

. I see you changed your hair color. It makes you look sophisticated. :)

colourful-pics: i.love.him. <3

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:42:16 -0400

colourful-pics:

i.love.him. <3

i love this movie

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:38:35 -0400

i love this movie

brandon boyd

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:21:10 -0400

brandon boyd

Beauty

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:18:34 -0400

I’ve seen beauty all over tumblr but would like to define it. What does it mean to be beautiful? is it hair, eye lashes, body, what? what is t really?

staypositveforever: i took this about 2 years ago, and i...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:46:20 -0400

staypositveforever:

i took this about 2 years ago, and i honestly wish i could clump my mascara like that again! i use to have ocd with my mascara + hair, but now im just waaay too lazy haha

People who graduate are cool

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:04:28 -0400

seaglasseyes:

seaglasseyes: cool

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:03:43 -0400

seaglasseyes:

cool

Pretty Eyes!

Sun, 29 May 2011 20:28:39 -0400

Pretty Eyes!

Photo

Sun, 29 May 2011 20:23:11 -0400

Photo

Sun, 29 May 2011 20:21:18 -0400

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination...."

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:19:53 -0400

““Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shaddows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluble; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said, “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.” - Jim Jarmusch”

- (via samanthaific)

(ISTATETHEOBVIOUS)

I love this quote except, IF YOU ARE GONNA COPY, MAKE IT BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL. PUT YOUR OWN TWIST TO IT.

I love this actor but i forgot his name.

Sat, 21 May 2011 21:13:57 -0400

I love this actor but i forgot his name.

eatincolor: Dragon fruit is incredibly high in vitamin C..and...

Sat, 21 May 2011 12:04:05 -0400

eatincolor:

Dragon fruit is incredibly high in vitamin C..and it’s known for it’s ability to help to control glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes.

tart-pastry:

A dragon fruit.

From the outside the fruit looks like a hot pink bulb ringed with a jester’s crown of curly greenish petals. Slice it open, and there’s a white (or, on rare occasions, fuchsia) scoop of sweet pulp speckled with tiny black seeds.

Video

Sat, 21 May 2011 12:00:37 -0400

lucasmcastro: não venha me dizer o que não posso fazer.

Sat, 21 May 2011 11:49:50 -0400

lucasmcastro:

não venha me dizer o que não posso fazer.

i wish you were here?

Sat, 21 May 2011 11:42:37 -0400

i wish you were here?