Reminiscing.........

Over the past few weeks and months, there has been a lot of reminiscing in our family, especially between Agustin and me.
For instance, yesterday we were reminiscing about when I first "knew" he was serious about me and my singing.  Now, for any artist, the support at home has a lot to do with one's development as an artist.   I was very  serious about my singing and being able to perform, I would not consider any "suitors" who didn't really like me for who I was, who they were as fellow believers and, of course, that  had to include  my singing "career".   Agustin obviously did from the start.  And, this little memory is the first time I really believed it❤
   I had finished Westminster Choir College and was living in Philadelphia and a student at the Academy of Vocal Arts for awhile.  Agustin had transferred to Philadelphia from Madison, Wisconsin, where he worked for the International Division of Ray-o-Vac Batteries.  We met at Tenth Presbyterian Church where I sang as a soloist  and was a member of the church and of the Young Adult Group.  Our young adult group was large and we met after church for lunch at the church and when I came, we started a volunteer choir.  He wanted to join the choir even though he told one of our friends he "could follow" but didn't' know how to read music.😄  As everyone knows, Agustin is very outgoing and very friendly:)
   We started seeing each other in group settings when some of us would go to concerts.  He loved classical music too.  As the weeks progressed, we started seeing more of each other and dated casually a few times.
    After a few weeks I told him I was to give a sacred concert in Haddonfield, NJ, on a Sunday.   I was to sing at a church I had once been soloist in and he asked me if he could go with me.  Now, because of transportation, rehearsal, and a visit with friends,  I had to leave quite early on Sunday AM and walk to where I would pick up the Jersey bus to ride over.  I was to meet my friend Barbara Gerkensmeyer for the day and then give the concert in the evening.   This meant that I would start walking from my apartment on Spruce over through Rittenhouse Square.   (all was very safe back in those days).
     I told Agustin that if he wanted to go, he could meet me in Rittenhouse Square about 7 AM and we would go together.  I honestly wondered if  he would "show up" that early.
But, low and behold, who should be walking across Rittenhouse Square at 6:45 AM with his tape recorder ( reel-to-reel back in those days)  but Agustin Hermosa, my future husband who first proved to me he cared enough to get up, get out and carry his  heavy tape recorder all that way.
     That is the first time we really started getting more than "casual" about the future.   And as he says to most people when he meets them, "we met on January 26, 1969", at 12:45 PM....that was the first time he came to Tenth Church and met me as his "choir director":)   The Rittenhouse Square "awakening in my heart" was probably by early spring of 1969:)  We were married Sept. 20, 1969❤
    So, we reminisce in our family about lots of things and I think it is because of the situation currently facing  us that we have been doing this.
    I look forward to many more "good" days if all this chemo works out.  However, I am prepared in my heart if things don't work the way I imagine.   God will still be with us on that  day and in that hour  when it comes.