Yesterday Paul and I celebrated two years of marriage. Honestly, I cannot believe how fast the time has flown by. The two of us have been through a lot: many of those times were very challenging. We've also had some great experiences too! Either way, we continue to persevere and be supportive of one another, and I am proud of our marriage.
I leave you with these fantastic pictures taken by Lauren Brooks, and a poem which was read at our wedding by my mother in law, who loves poetry and used to do poetry readings back in the day. She had the entire group mesmerized!
We are poor students who stay after school to study joy.
We are like those birds in the India mountains.
I am a widow whose child is her only joy.
The only thing I hold in my ant-like head
Is the builder's plan of the castle of sugar.
just to steal one grain of sugar is a joy!
Like a bird, we fly out of darkness into the hall,
Which is lit with singing, then fly out again.
Being shut out of the warm hall is also a joy.
I am a laggard, a loafer, and an idiot. But I love
To read about those who caught one glimpse
Of the Face, and died twenty years later in joy.
I don't mind your saying I will die soon.
Even in the sound of the word soon, I hear
The word you which begins every sentence of joy.
"You're a thief!" the judge said. "Let's see
Your hands!" I showed my callused hands in court.
My sentence was a thousand years of joy.
~Robert Bly
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