Ten – or tenuto – is a musical notation that indicates that you should hold the particular note a bit longer. 
Ten is also a decade… quite a long time.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since @PadrePablo and I met and began a long-distance relationship. Back then, airfare on Southwest was about $29 each way, we talked on AIM or land line… and we ran to the nearest college computer lab to see if we had an email from each other. Since then we moved in together, got married, and went back to a long-distance relationship again.
Today, we fly $49 flights, talk on Google Chat and check for emails from each other on our iPhones. (Yes, I measure time through the evolution of technology.)
Consciously or unconsciously, I must have seen a tenuto accent over PadrePablo because here we are ten years later, having accomplished more together than we had individually dreamed of back then.
Here’s to tens more years and a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Main Man!
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I remember watching thousands of East Germans pushing through the holes in the Berlin Wall on the evening news. And I recall Mr. Megargee telling us how important this was to our world. But of course, I didn’t realize the enormity of the event until much, much later.
We saw pieces of the Berlin Wall at the Newseum this past year:
Behind almost every XKCD comic, there is a true story about @PadrePablo and I… or at least we can relate in a funny way.
If a picture paints a thousand words, then the smirk on @PadrePablo‘s face paints a whole lot of patience as I took some 150 photos of leaves in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. See the full set on Flickr here.
Today is the 95th anniversary of my grandmother’s birth… and 126 days since her passing.
With my paternal grandparents in the summer of 1982 (or thereabouts).
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