From the first moment my wife discovered
she had breast cancer, there was a deafening silence from the men I know. Even
ones whose wives, mothers or girlfriends had breast cancer seemed to have
received a gag order from some Central Cancer Command and did little more than
mumble about the experience. Not one to shut up for any known reason, I started
this blog…That was four years ago – as time passed, people searching for
answers stumbled across my blog and checked out what I had to say. The
following entry appeared January of 2013…
After my “Brain
Cancer” post, I predict that this will become my most popular post…
It’s one I knew I
would get to, but is way too personal so I also knew I’d NEVER get to it.
A movie we watched
last night has spurred me on to finally write this.
HOPE SPRINGS (with
the word “eternal” just hanging there, unwritten, unspoken but entirely
appropriate.)
Take a three of my
favorite actors – Meryl Streep (for multiple movies that we love!); Tommy Lee
Jones (for MEN IN BLACK); and Steve Carell (for making us laugh repeatedly…and
for NOT doing one single funny thing in this movie!) – and create a story that
can easily lead to CONVERSATION.
Which is I have
discovered, more important than anything in a marriage.
I once read that
the most important sex organ in the a Human body is not…ahem. It’s not…ahem.
It’s not the skin.
It’s the BRAIN.
And the brain, while doing all sorts of things (which HOPE SPRINGS talks about
brilliantly) directs intelligent conversation.
It led last night,
to all kinds of things, some of which I’ve talked about before: http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2011/06/i.html,
http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-hairy-deal.html,
http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-would-men-like-better-bigger-boobs.html,
and some of which are new, like this Indian-sounding thing I’ve been reading
about called “kareeza” (http://www.reuniting.info/)
which we will be exploring in the future.
So for all you
sickos (8-D) who were hoping for a quick thrill, go rent the movie and then rub
that most important sex organ of all…your head!
No comments:
Post a Comment