Tony Compagno

Soon Enough The Bluebird Has To Fly Tony Compagno

Poet Robert Bly, echoing 13th century poet and mystic, Rumi, has written, in comparing humans with birds, that men and women have to "abandon their longing for the perfect. The inner nest not made by instinct will never be quite round and each has to enter the nest made of the other imperfect bird."Most of us inherently fallible human beings may have imagined that we knew all about the birds and the bees and so many things about this life when we embarked on the institution called marriage. After many years, in my case fifty-one, my wife and I are still learning together, with mutual love, respect, patience, and a sometimes excruciating acceptance of our differences and imperfections. I wonder how many people suspect how difficult it is to enter the institution of conjugal life without realizing how tricky it might prove to blend two possibly very different dreams and doing so in a way that is ultimately satisfying to both parties, both birds in the nest. With that, I give you the tale of Artie and Gwen.