It Takes A Lot Of Mulch, Love

It Takes A Lot Of Mulch, Love Does, To Create A Froth.

Life Is Like Fording A River, Stepping From One Slippery Stone To Another, And You Must Rejoice Every Time You Don't Lose Your Balance, And Learn To Laugh At All The Times You Do.

The Dream Of Romantic Love Is Taken More Seriously In North America Than It Is Anywhere Else In The World, Which Is Why We Believe In Fidelity And Why We Believe In Infidelity As Well. It Is Also, Of Course, What Makes Our Divorce Rate As High As It Is. Falling In Love At First Sight And Instant Gratification Are Part Of The World In Which We Live, So There Are People Who Believe Adamantly In Fidelity. They Just Don't Believe In It For Long.

No Marriage Is One Person's Failure Any More Than It's One Person's Success, So It Works Best To See A Marriage That Has Ended Simply As Something That Didn't Work Out.

Perhaps The Old View Of 'me Breadwinner, You Hausfrau' Worked For Our Grandparents, When People Obligingly Popped Off Before Boring Each Other To Death, But It Won't Work Any Longer Because We Are Living Too Long And Divorce Is Needed Today To Do What Death Acomplished More Economically Before.