Pamela- I've always dreamed of singing this song for you. In my heart, I know that I have, maybe someday I actually will. It's everything I've always wanted to say to the only person in the world that I could ever say it to. Our love is a slow, sweet dance . . . Happy Anniversary, my Pamela (put on the headphones I've left for you. Loggins is simply amazing LIVE.)

Forever

Now, while we're here alone and all is said and done Now I can let you know because of all you've shown I'm grown enough to tell ya You'll always be inside of me. How many roads have gone by So many words left unspoken I needed to be be your side If only to hold you. Forever in my heart Forever we will be Even when I'm gone You'll be here in me Forever Once, I dreamed that you were gone I cried, I tried to find ya I begged the dream would fade away and please awaken me The night took a hold of my heart And left me with no one to follow The love that I grasped in the dark, I'll always remember Forever in my heart Forever we will be Even when I'm gone You'll be here in me Forever Forever in my heart Forever here you'll be Even when I'm gone You'll be near to me Forever in my life Always thought I'd be I'd be yours Forever . . .

In about three weeks my wife and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage. It just doesn't make sense that I make a whole spectacle of it in one day, seeing we've been together and so incredibly strong for 25 years. These days, I'm truly amazed after reading the 'legals' in the newspaper with these assholes that get married for two weeks and then file for divorce. Damn, it's insane and I'm sorry, sometimes funny. But what the hell were they thinking in the first place? Either way, I'm devoting at least several posts to this incredible woman that understands me in a way no one in the entire world ever will, my wife, Pamela. Yeah, these are going to be romantic and sentimental. It's just the way I am, folks. Here's to the one woman that still makes Mikey tick . . .

You

Here, in my heart In my olde, melacholy soul is the You I've always known It's in my darkest hours that I find the way home from the very light of You; a serene beacon in this most sacred of harbours With my spirit at the end of my tether i cling to you like a rainbow clings to slices of sunlight; this complicated prism of all that's good in my life, the colours of emotion, the extreme comfort in belonging . . . It's there in your heart (I belong) where my peacefully sleeping soul is forever safe deep inside the You I will always know, love always . . .

There's a sacred moment lost somewhere between the dreamworld and my waking hours that you are alive, still within me, heart beating, the assuring rhythm of your breath Though the moment quickly dies, the memory of you continues to live; a complex composition of stars shining down from the heavens, the genesis of untold galaxies, the perpetual continuation of time as I know it Days turn to weeks, weeks to months and the months to years and your memory continues to grow, continues to soften, continues to go on . . . And though my soul weeps tonight, there's a bitterweet solace in my heart knowing that, in the grander scheme of things, tomorrow morning is just stolen moments away When the lavender dawn will find you once again . . . at peace {for Mom 7.15.2005 ~ 7.15.2008}

I remember, Mom. (3.30.28 - 3.30.08) Missing you, as always . . . ~m

Sands of time drift silently by us, yet here we are climbing invisible mountains carelessly left behind, alone; yet never alone true companions . . . Evening hours sift seamlessly into the bleak tranquility of dawn, and here we are once again, facing truth and light, overwhelmed . . . but still impossibly together true companions . . . the Years grow wings, birds leave the nest and here we are, holding hands, in some kind of crazy love taking this life day by crazy day the best way we know how . . . just me and you, my one true companion - and I love you . . . [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnDKb8Exrj4] When the rain is blowing in your face And the whole world is on your case I would offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met There's no doubt in my mind where you belong I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue I'd go crawling down the avenue There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love The storms are raging on the rollin' sea Down the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free But you ain't seen nothing like me yet There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you Make you happy, make your dreams come true To make you feel my love ~Still crazy after all these years (go figure) . . . here's to another 24 always, ~m