Sometimes
I look at you
changing the tires on my car,
pushing a mower around my mother’s yard,
pruning (really badly) the trees at home,
and I think my heart will explode.
Sometimes
I listen to you
laughing riotously at a scene on TV,
playing Goldberg Variations on the piano,
snoring (very loudly) in bed at night
and I think my heart will explode
Sometimes
I touch you
entwining arms around you,
stretching onto the tips of my toes
kissing (quite passionately) whatever my lips reach
and I think my heart will explode.
.
.
There you go. That’s Diana Gabaldon’s Rule of Three happening in a poem! 🙂 What would make my heart finally explode? If he would only wear his kilt while doing any of the above! lol
Shawn L. Bird 
how to button your suit. October 15, 2012
Tags: 2, 3, button, double breasted, J. J. Lee, Measure of a Man, suit, three, two, wearing
I didn’t believe it when my husband told me, years ago, that this was the way it is done. However, I’ve just read J. J. Lee’s memoir, and as a tailor’s apprentice and fashion journalist, I bow to his expertise. Lee says that on a two button suit the rule is,
On a three button suit, the top one is a wild card, dependant on the lie of the lapels and the fit of the man wearing it,
I mentioned this to a student wearing a beautiful pin striped double breasted suit on “Dress up like a gangster” day at school. He said, “I’m not traditional.” >>sigh<< There’s traditional, and then there is just ‘wrong.’ 2 plus 2 is traditionally 4, and if you claim it’s 5, you’re just wrong. I decided to look for some photographic evidence to support this button rule, and I looked back to the days of cool suit wearing, studying photos of the Rat Pack. They follow the rule. See?
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