Today, celebrating our forty-seventh wedding anniversary, I can truly say that we really, really, really know each other. I think. For example, we know, without saying, that whoever is up first usually makes coffee. We know, without saying, that some time after drinking coffee, reading the Bible, checking emails, Facebook, news, and twitter, I'm going to say, "What do you want to eat?"

I know, without asking, that Gale doesn't want to speak to soliciters on the phone. I think I'm losing my hearing or maybe he is mumbling or just thinks he said something I didn't hear. Then again, he doesn't hear or doesn't remember things I know I said.

After all these years, it really doesn't matter because we know, without saying, that we still love each other.