Last night I found out that one night, during our engagement, after I fell asleep while riding back from a date, Michael sang to me all the way home. This came up while we were reading Isaiah, and something reminded him of a song, which he sang to me in full. 'Remember this one?' 'Nope, never heard it before,' I told him. 'Yes, you have, but you may not remember it,' he said, and then proceeded to enlighten me. We had gone to Shepardstown (sp?) to listen to the mountain music, and while I fell asleep Michael drove on and sang. I don't remember any of this, but it was so sweet to know. 'I am so glad I married you!' I told him.
Speaking of Isaiah, we just read about Sennacharib and Hezekiah (to whom the Lord said, 'Set your house in order, for you are about to die,' at which he turned his face to the wall. What lovely turns of phrase!), and I was reminded of Lord Byron's poem beginning 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,' which of course leads directly to Ogden Nash's delightfully funny spoof Very Like A Whale: 'In the first place, George Gordon Byron had enough experience To know that it probably wasn't just one Assyrian, it was a lot of Assyrians.' Very clever man, Ogden Nash!
So, after I had got through admiring Michael for singing to me without my knowing it all those months ago, I remarked, 'Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.' He gave me the blankest look. 'Where did that come from?' Usually he knows that when I'm quiet for more than five seconds in the middle of a conversation, I'll be miles away by the time I speak again.
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I have a friend who wanted, among other things, a husband who would sing her to sleep. I keep forgetting to ask if her husband of a year is the right one. :)
I don't think Darren ever sang me to sleep. But I was terribly self-conscious about my lack of singing ability (I used to tell people that "three out of four ATI girls sing beautifully. I'm number four."). So the day that I sang to Addie and Darren said it was sweet, I realized I'd found a treasure.
Darren does what he calls "patented lightning-fast change of subject." Witness example here.
-- SJ
Oh, sorry, I thought that was fairly obvious given the context! The candy line is one of Ogden Nash's epigrams.
And, to be quite honest, that is not what I said that night. Michael reprimanded me when he read this post because he remembers this conversation and distintly knew that it was something else I said. But I couldn't remember it when I was writing the post, so I grabbed at that epigram, because I have quoted it before and it's one of the cleverest.
~Rose
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