Happy Anniversary Baby!

Today marks the 10th Anniversary of when I asked the love of my life, Nancy Brown, to be my girlfriend and she made the biggest mistake of her life. It's been a wild, exciting, curious, furious, magical and majestic journey so far.... With Marriage exactly 1 month Away. I couldn't think of anybody better to spend my downtime with. I love Nancy Brown! with all my heart.

Ryan Downs

July 1 at 9:44am · Edited · 

Today, 10 years ago, an event happened that shook my foundations. This world that I had built for myself, in my heart and in my head, was shattered and destroyed. Replaced by something unknown. Going from heartache and an everchanging world to something tangible- the beginning of something static. Alls it took was one kiss and a few intimate evenings (no,not sex...) and I was hooked. Our chemistry was rewritten and recoded only to fit with eachother, both figuratively and literally and from that moment you become two parts of a whole. You know you meet the right person when they inspire you do great, meaningful and ambitious things. You know because you can feel it, you feel it because it is real, and it is real because it has always been. I gave my heart out to Nancy Brown in complete vulnerability and she reciprocated by doing the same, since then.......I havent felt alone in the universe, flying through space on a biological earthship. I just want the world to know that. I want people to know that there is a force which violates our natural order......it allows me to deny my genetic programming.... Love. Ive found it, cultivated it and it has grown into something far beyond comprehension and conception...... and thats not even the tip of how I feel...or maybe...just the tip tho wink emoticon

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• Sheryl Betke-Downs, Nancy Brown, Joan Downs Modes and 4 others like this.
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  Terri Sample  Isn't Love Grand! 
  So Glad you found your soul mate, the one that connected with you in a way that was totally perfect and made sense of it all, for you...your forever Love!

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  Dezi Taylor Beautiful! You're very good with your words...and your heart 
  Congratulations!
  Sending you two great vibes 💕

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  Ryan Downs "Words offer the means to meaning and to those who will listen- the Annunciation of the truth"

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  Alison Closser I always knew one day you guys would become one! Happy for you both!!

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From 2005 til now!

Random yet heartfelt

I just came across this story on facebook. It is incredible and awe-inspiring. About love and loss and how even the mortal plane cannot separate soul-mates. I wanted to share it with the world:

Grab the Kleenex! 

The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of "Cat", and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept.
"I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it" she said.
"I think that's what he would have wanted".

-Not sure what is more honorable: Being married to this faithful wife to the end or the Marine standing next to the casket watching over them both.

I lost my grandpa last  year. He died on February 16th, 2013.He was the most influential figure in my life (along with the unsinkable Sheryl Downs) and he was also a marine. It is a bond you never shake, even if you retire from the service, and they showed up at his funeral and played TAPS for him. Even now I think of him everyday and even now writing this my heart aches because I miss him. But this is just awesome plane and simple. It's a brotherhood for life.
Normally I'll post cynical, or sarcastic or comedic things on here (along with funny and many, many more descriptives) but this garners some attention.

EVERYBODY DIES IN LIFE: to live in life the key is to die well....like this man

Here's the best example or turning tragedy to purpose. A way to reconcile the dead with the living. And a testament to boundless feats love will help you achieve. I have no way of researching to find out if this picture is real (in reality I do....the internet, but I don't know 'how' to go about doing that) but I have faith that selfless acts by selfless people do exist, that I've seen with my own eyes.