February 2012
8 posts
The White Elephant in the Room: Love + Expiration... →
Love & live every day like these moments are your best - your only - chance to do what is most important and love those most precious.
whiteelephantintheroom:
I’m getting married, a girlfriend announces in her sweet-like-syrup drawl.
Congratulations! I gush. When? Who’s the guy?
Wedding is Wednesday, she replies. We only just met…last week.
Whoa.
There’s a good reason why it’s...
Octopii are amazing (as are most creatures) →
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/
Excited & grateful
Thanks to some extra JetBlue points from my Dad, I am about to book the first flight/leg for our honeymoon! Woo!
Just for extra “aww …” value, today is our 103rd monthiversary!
I’m so happy and grateful and excited!!!
And hopeful that we can find the funds to book everything after this first one-way flight. But you know, just for a moment, I have to just let myself...
I’m having a financial freakout. I just added up the amount we’re spending on subsidizing rooms or paying for rooms for some folks and ourselves and the cost of wedding rings.
I am about to cut the flower budget again, find a friend who would loan us a PA system. Hopefully we can still have our music played during the ceremony (we have something specific that we really want). We...
January 2012
8 posts
for sam
if i ever win the lottery here’s what i would buy: more time with you. you are the greatest treasure, the best ride, my companion and lover and comrade in everything i’d spend that money to protect our health and yeah, i’d use it to bring that long-awaited baby to us too and then i’d use the rest of those winnings to spread good food, good health and joy among the...
“Everyone comes with baggage.
Find someone who loves you enough to help you...”
– unknown
in which I am baffled and dismayed
Instead of vital, much-needed oft-requested medical information, my mother sends me chain letters. I’m trying to be open-minded but REALLY? Not a reply to my email, a small chatty note or even a lengthy explanation of why she won’t do more than allude to the cardiac condition she has that could be really important for me & my docs to know about … instead, a chain letter.
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Being a bride is pushing on my beauty-button hard. I’m not “conventionally pretty” in a bunch of ways. But my fiance makes me feel radiant and beautiful. The problem is mirrors and photos. Those make me feel awful. I’m doing my best to navigate the wedding waters and find a dress that flatters me. I also want to love the way I feel in the dress. So far, that seems to...
December 2011
2 posts
I’m missing you, tumblr. December is going so quickly and feels so full. I’m hoping that the next two weeks offer more time for rest, reflection, joy, and reading/catching up with all of you.
November 2011
19 posts
Pay attention folks, some of our politicians are doing it again. This time they’ve crafted a bill, in secret and without hearings, that would allow the US military to arrest and hold indefinitely without charges ANYONE, ANYWHERE. Including U.S. citizens, on American soil. They claim it’s because “the battlefield” is right outside our bedroom windows, and they need this...
The Muppets
This movie was a love letter to the fans, the Muppets and all that have created/embodied them over the years. It was wonderful.
Better Together
I am so lucky and happy and grateful. 6 months from Friday, I will marry the most amazing person on the planet, love & magic & stars personified. We’re really better together and this song captures a lot of that. The gentle rolling melodies and the lyrics of Better Together by Jack Johnson.
There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard No song that I...
“Celebrate love, don’t worry about what others think and don’t get sidetracked by...”
– Jonas Peterson (via fuckyeahweddingideas)
“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find...”
– Og Mandino (via happythings)
Good Omen
Last night I dreamt that our baby finally arrived. It seemed sooner than we were expecting - someone said “Wow, that only took 3 days” and I said “No, she’ll be here in 3 days” but then I turned and she was placed in my arms. I starting laughing and crying at the same time. I woke up so full of joy & emotion it was stunning. I’ve had dreams about...
Ancestors
revlyncox:
Remembering our beloved dead helps us understand our own place in the world. This sermon was written for the UU’s of Fallston, October 30, 2011.
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This sermon moved me and came at a time when I am thinking a lot about my ancestors. Those that are now gone - family members, community members, people who spent some or all of their precious, short time working to make the...
October 2011
23 posts
As Wil Wheaton said: "What a bunch of shitbags" →
I love babies, kids. I am happy for parents and families.
But it is getting beyond hard now (we hit another obstacle that I’m not sharing here) and sometimes I can barely manage to do anything other than run away from the sight of all those happy, lucky faces.
“Your life is right now! It’s not later. It’s not in that time of retirement....”
– Esther Hicks (via inspiri)
“Baby it’s you.
You’re the one I love.
You’re the one I need....”
– Yep, it’s from one of Beyonce’s top-40 songs. But it is also true. I love you, Sam.
Will we regret not having professional photos of...
Because after a lot of research, we’re finding that the bare minimum from professional photographers seems to be $4K and well, that’s not at all in our budget. No way, no how.
