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Good things on porch swings....

Front porch swings...Not sure if these are exclusive to the south, I imagine people all over have them. However, I do know we southerners take our swings very seriously. This swing is where my future husband proposed to me. This swing is where I spent hot summer nights chatting with old girlfriends, and cool Autumn days curles up in my Grandmother's handmade quilt reading Faulkner. It was where I laughed at my silly dogs, and had some good heartfelt cries. It was where I spent mornings sipping coffee and just feeling the comfort of the man I love sitting beside me, often not having to say a word.

This swing....was a good one.

Sadly I had to leave this little house but the memories I made their will last my lifetime. Old friends, new friends, dinner parties, engagement parties, birthdays, late nights, and early mornings all seemed to find their way onto the fronch pourch and inevitably, the swing. So as I move on to the next chapter in my life, a new place and a husband, there will somehow be a swing that will make its way into my life. And I imagine it is where I will again get to laugh with friends, sip coffee and put my feet in Joseph's lap, watch my silly dogs, and who knows...perhaps swing and sing a baby to sleep...Anything is possible.