Down to work

For the most part it's all about fun and friendship and loving and affection and understanding and companionship and inspiration and all of that.  Every once in a while I'm reminded that lifelong partnership is work too.  This month has been a rare reminder of how important the work is.  Rare, but so completely worthwhile.  Unexpected, but so soothing.  I read this recently.

"We who go mountain scrambling have constantly set before us the superiority of fixed purpose or perseverance to brute force.  We know that each height, each step, must be gained by patient, laborious toil, and that wishing cannot take the place of working."~Holly Morris in Adventure Divas quoting Edward Whymper, first man to summit the Matterhorn

Thanks to K for scrambling with me now and for years to come.