100 Word Challenge - pillar

What follows is in response to the 100 Word Challenge, authored by the statuesque Velvet Verbosity. The word is pillar.

We have built this thing over many years. It started small. And slowly things were added to it, building it up and making it stronger and tougher. Things we enjoyed together. First dates and long walks and babies and holding hands and total devotion. The Big Red Boat and New Smyrna and Jamaica and England. Together. And things we have survived. A stillborn baby and accidents and heart problems and lost jobs and lost friends. All of these things, and more, go into what we have built. This tower of strength, the pillar this family is built on, this 'us'.

I am excited. Again. I have been invited to write another episode in David's PLR, the Meme which involves the fictional Past Life Regressions of a young man in Australia. Seven chapters have been written, so far, and more are planned. (The link to the 1st chapter is upper left on this page and it's possible to start there and just follow right along, from chapter to chapter, by clicking on the links at the end of each piece.) There is one scheduled for today, Sunday, to be published by a young woman in Romania, which, as chance would have it, is where my previous chapter was set. I am writing this on Saturday evening and setting this up to publish at 12:01am, so I don't know, for sure, that she WILL publish. But, she's scheduled for Sunday and I am scheduled for Tuesday. The story is 99% done - I just have to get her story ending and incorporate it into the beginning of mine and away we go.

I am so amazed and flattered at the response my first story got and continues to get. I certainly hope that my second effort is as well received as my first; although I really don't see how that could happen. It has been incredible and I am so farking happy. Can you tell?

Today is paintball Sunday. I am going paintballing with ALL THREE of my sons. And plenty of other people - but my sons and I get to do so little where all four of us are involved and/or participating together - this is really special.

And I'll try not to have a heart attack.