36 years of marriage, as of today....
As I looked back at today last year, so, much of that nearly poetic description hasn't changed.
...and SO much else between then and now has.
Our on-going encounter with life and the function and beauty of doing it together — WOW, is pretty close to all that it can be reduced to.
I am mindful this year of how much it means to not be alone in it all — how grateful I am for that. But, more particularly, to travel this terrain with Tami. What power — coming both from deep strength and vulnerability within her. That power — her — frees me toward something. I don't even have to be like her in those ways. Her power, though, frees me to be more like myself. And, while it is not always completely friction-less (I want to say that for those who might think it is, or needs to be...it doesn't), it creates a combination which is palpable (hopefully, in a good way) for others in our lives.
The kind of palpability that is needed in times like we have gone through together as a family during the last year.
The kind that enables us to imagine the more that always is, against how things seem to be.
The kind that invites each other (and others) further into the mystery of it all.
We are more aware than ever of the fragility of life, not in a way that makes us more fearful, but in way that makes us more grateful.
I am so grateful for you, Tami, and for all that our lives have become...and are becoming still.
