20 years. I was going to look for a poem or something for this space, but someone else’s words, don’t hold my heart in place. They would not be appropriate for the girl I call my bride. What can I say? It is something I cannot hide. The babies, the jobs, the travel, you’ve been with me through it all. The joy, the laughter, the highs, the lows, you are always there to pick me up, even when I fall. Words can’t really capture how much you mean to me. I long for the day I wake, and you are the first I see. Twenty years may seem long to some, but just the beginning for you and me.
Love you, sweetheart.
Lunch Box Quotes are notes I, with some help from the wife, include in the kids’ lunches every day. Since Number 1 is off in college, he gets a text, and Numbers 2-4 get handwritten notes on napkins.
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Quotes: @alancornett @mirandacchh @arealmofwonder @Literariium@AmerPhilo2025
Quotes:
1. ‘A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, “You are mad, you are not like us.” – Abba Anthony
2. “It is hard to follow you, Lord, but it is impossible to leave you.” —Saint Augustine.
3. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” – Louisa May Alcott
4. “Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.” – C.S. Lewis
Bonus Quote: “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” – Kahlil Gibran
Sources:
25. Abba Anthony said, ‘A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, “You are mad, you are not like us.”’ pic.twitter.com/t3PPFGiplx
— Alan Cornett (@alancornett) August 31, 2026
“Es duro seguirte Señor, pero es imposible dejarte.”
—San Agustín. pic.twitter.com/t3rKtRl2mX— Miranda (@mirandacchh) August 28, 2026
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
~ Louisa May AlcottAround and Around the Apple Tree
🎨 Frederick Morgan (1885) pic.twitter.com/ZqPKOpeFUy— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) August 30, 2026
— C.S. Lewis pic.twitter.com/ylN3yHc6V3
— ✒️ (@Literariium) August 28, 2026
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”
Kahlil Gibran pic.twitter.com/n9vSk5h3nZ
— American Philosophy (@AmerPhilo2025) August 27, 2026