Marriage Music Freedom Family Freinds and Charlotte Harbor

Marriage Music Freedom Family Friends and Charlotte Harbor

So July 4, 1992 was a very special day. Rich and I were married on the shores of beautiful Charlotte Harbor.  Rich worked at the radio station WOKD as the Program Director, and I worked as an RN at Fawcett Memorial ED and Arcadia Hospital ICU.  We got married at the Holiday Inn Pool Side in Punta Gorda, during a break of a very cool awesome Tim Briggs Band.  It was a pool party and the harbor was full of boats hanging close by listening to the music and there were many people both on those boats and at poolside who (at the time) we did not know, but have since become very good friends with.

Since then we have remained married through thick and thin, and remained committed to getting up no matter what knocked us down.  We discovered that in all situations there was usually a silver lining and a gift, and the adventure of our marriage has been finding those gifts.  We have done some very cool things, form cruising to zip lining, to powered power gliding off a volcano in Hawaii, surviving white water rapid challenge in Charlotte, climbing energy vortexes, motorcycling, RV’ing it, camping and all sorts of incredible memories.  We have been to football games, baseball games, nascar races while kayaking, sailing, jet boating and making many trips to nipple deep with the charlotte harbor nipple deep yacht club.

We have been to derby parties, dega parties super bowl parties birthday parties and mostly any excuse for a party.  We have hiked waterfalls, and swam with the dolphins seen whales up close and incredible. We have experienced sweat lodges, drumming circles and shamanic cleansings.

We have lived in the perfect small house on the water and dream house in the mountains, country southern home in the south (NC) and now on Lake Wales. We have had cats and dogs and birds and pets that hung out in the world around us.

We have been to concerts and music festivals and communed with nature in ways that defy words

We have both gone back to school and experience a wide variety of professions. We have owned a business, worked for others and one of us is retired.(sort of)  But we have also remained steadfast in our love for music, and our love for our family and friends.  We share a love for the water, for the mountains and for our sense of freedom.

Marriage for us as been the freedom to be ourselves… a little off from center……well actually sometimes we are way outside the circle. But in that freedom we have always stayed connected to each other and to the things in this life that are important.  Rich I honor and appreciate all you have done for me which has allowed me to become who I am.  I love what I do as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner but could never do it with out you to keep me on track.  I love how you have always looked for things to love to do and now to create. I admire that you pretty much can do anything you set out to do!  And I love that you are created and making these bass ukulele’s!

I love the music we share.  I love the freedom you give me and I love all the memories we have on Charlotte Harbor.  Happy Anniversary: I am thrilled that we will be on a 47 ft sail boat on the Harbor seeing the same fireworks we shared 21 years ago.  Hopefully we will see a moon in the sky and be connected to all those who have shared those memories with us: our kids, our grandchildren, our friends, our co workers, our neighbors and those who hang out from the other side who guide us and protect us.

I am thinking we can do this for another 21 years or so.