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<\/a><\/h6>\nIt’s our anniversary in two days (Feb 17th, again this year). Anne-aversary has a nice ring, and makes it personal. Or how about Anne-adversary? That’s how it is at moments, like iron sharpening iron. Seems that happens more in a marriage than between any two men.*<\/strong><\/p>\n Or how about, Anne-a-mystery! Like in a mystery of a man with a maid.** I like that better.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here we are in Oregon, trying to remember where we were and what we were doing on each anniversary–or at least each year. Read through it if you’d like, or skip to the little poem at the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1966 Marriage . . . on four days notice, next day to job in Georgia That’s it to date, much glossed, much left out, but it gives the idea. A marriage adds power to a life, gives it value, not to mention the sharing, which makes everything more meaningful.\u00a0And all the more the longer it goes.<\/p>\n Here’s a little poem I just came across in a 2007 sketchbook<\/em><\/span>—<\/strong><\/p>\n With Anne and God, that’s all I need . . .<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ____________________________ Coming Saturday:\u00a0Love, the greatest power in the universe. <\/em>A talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We met at a drug store fountain, I was cook, she knew the dishwasher. Who knew what that would lead to? That’s true with any of us. Here’s our version, a list, and a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The List<\/h3>\n
\n1967 Back to CA, working art in LA, parents still worried
\n1968 Beginning to get serious, setting goals
\n1969 Goals reached early, life’s disappointments realized
\n1970 Searching trip in Mexico, found God (or vice-versa), new start
\n1971 First child born, new everything again
\n1972 Left Surfer Mag for Wycliffe Bible Translators, to Guatemala
\n1973 Climbed volcano (and much else)
\n1974 U. of Washington for linguistics (and much else)
\n1975 Second child born, in Guatemala, Jungle training in Mexico
\n1976 Calif. again, to work in Wycliffe home office
\n1977 Scraping by, $$ prayers answered, 2nd job (Surfer Mag)
\n1978 Third child born, larger house bought
\n1979 Raising kids, working two jobs, begin degree program
\n1980 Fourth child born, no time for anniversaries
\n1981 Life continues
\n1982 And continues
\n1983 Still continues
\n1984 Transfered to Papua New Guinea, all six of us
\n1985 Discovering another world, co-wrote book
\n1986 Transfered to Texas, VP of Wycliffe Intl
\n1987 Continuing education for both of us
\n1988 Anne Dir. of Women’s Ministries, my traveling much
\n1989 Life continues
\n1990 And continues
\n1991 Anne receives BA, U of Texas, discovers printmaking
\n1992 Child adopted, I become President WBT USA, back to CA
\n1993 Children growing, in their turn graduating, life continues
\n1994 And continues
\n1995 MA finally completed (Leadership)
\n1996 30th anniversary trip: Switzerland
\n1997 Painting spirit hits, fired as President, moved to Canada
\n1998 Org. fund raising, Student Ministries, painting
\n1999 Living
\n2000 Children leaving home, college, marrying
\n2001 Return to California, still with Wycliffe
\n2002 Traveling, writing, painting
\n2003 Painting, printmaking, at office less
\n2004 Resigned from WBT, begin making a living as artists
\n2005 Life of faith begins again, first grandchildren born
\n2006 40th anniversary trip: back to Guatemala
\n2007 Anniversary trip to Santa Fe, NM for galleries
\n2008 Living and praying and working
\n2009 Living (don’t remember what else)
\n2010 More not remembering
\n2011 Traveling, almost monthly, visiting family scattered about
\n2012 Art-making anniversary trip to Oregon (1st annual?)<\/p>\nThe Poem<\/h3>\n
\n Another trinity, really, we three.<\/strong>
\n God knew a man\u00a0without\u00a0a woman\u00a0would be incomplete<\/strong>
\n And I knew without Him I am,<\/strong>
\n So, there we are, the three of us,<\/strong>
\n Man, Woman, God.<\/strong>
\n It’s all I need to succeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCelebrating in Toledo, Oregon.
\n*Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”
\n**Proverbs 30:18-19 “Among the things too wonderful for me, best is the way of a man with a maid.” (My paraphrase)<\/p>\n