9/01/2004: Let’s call him Tito Ponsing...

Tito Ponsing is 60ish, but his ideas of love and romance continue to be true and relevant to those of our age who remain befuddled on the subject. Over drinks, he generously shares his thoughts, about women, the importance of finding someone you truly passionately would love for the rest of your life. He comes across as a Casanova, but who happens to also know that it is still important to come home to the one you love. He says the secret to a woman’s true affections is a man’s full honesty. The ladies overhearing unanimously agree. Tito Ponsing imparted a lot of brilliant gems that night. He is eloquent, almost peotic when he rolls the words from his mouth, like Cyrano de Bergerac giving his sons a lesson or two on love or women, that which he knows best, in his characteristic fashion. I wish I had a pen at the time to write them all down and maybe make a book of it. But it’s fun, to have someone like him, to have him for a Tito and be the wise one to guide us through the tricky paths of romance. Here is a man who’s seen it all, a man who has figured out her woman’s secret, and knows that which is always important. The secret, it turns out, is no secret at all.