One week after our anniversary we will be going to a wedding. The brides colors are my favorites. The setting will be perfect. We were married outside in a small local park. The couple will be married in the groom's parents backyard. It will seem like a renewal of vows for me. As a Bahai we don't have vows (plural) only the phrase, "We will all verily, abide by the Will of God." Anything else we can choose to have said...or not.
The wedding will take place after we have made a journey to the Grand Canyon. Another renewal. My first trip there was with my husband after we were married. For several years we went there during Thanksgiving -- to avoid the massive summer crowds. Now we are retired and I was hoping for a 'spring' experience, but it seems spring is waiting to show up until around June or July.
This anniversary is our 34th. It will have multiple layers of flavors, colors, sounds and feelings. We each remember different moments about our life together and
those events that we remember in unison have the power to resucitate emotions we would rather stay buried.
Concepts of time, and our personalities are changing at about the same rate now.
Blinding speed. That makes every day or week and adventure, but even though we are changing--it is the person, the life together that we remember. Knowing that we
could not have had the same level of comfort and ease, if not for the person sitting next to us at this moment.
Without their patience, forgiveness, acceptance...love, our life would be a sad, short, lonely story.
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