Happy anniversary to Kirsten and Shawn. August 10th, 1996 was a lovely day with all the festivities taking place at the Museum of Nature - a gorgeous place for a wedding. Kirsten was dressed in a simple white gown and I was in a gold shot silk number that I’d love to fit into one day - the fabric is divine. Shawn looked debonair in a tux, but gosh, so young. Actually all of us had smooth, young faces without the mark of experience.
1996 is one of those years to remember. It started off sad with my Aunty Jean’s passing, but while visiting Alberta for the funeral I learned of a cattle drive that would traipse across southern Alberta on land near where my great-grandparents homesteaded. On the way home from her funeral I bought a belt that I’ve worn almost everyday since and I think of Aunty Jean and how important she was to me every time I put it on.
Our first parrots hatched in the early spring of 1996. There was the cattle drive (the best vacation ever). We got Pan, our greyhound, from Kirsten, in the summer. Kirsten’s wedding was the cake topper of the year. Following her wedding my first horse arrived (disaster, but that’s another story). And to end the year we had a huge party and roasted a lamb. All this in one year! Incredible!
We had several hours of beautiful summer day until the clouds socked-in, bringing buckets of rain. Much to Carm’s dismay, it seems that the previously dormant grass was actually saving energy so that it could grow at twice the rate once the drought ended! Today’s moisture will likely triple the growth!
I was browsing the ‘Zara’ website and saw a pair of gold sequin pants! How awesome would that be! So tempted ;-)
Headline tonight: 5,241,900 cases with 166,071 deaths in the US. There are a total of 119,744 (119,404 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 8,982 (8,981 yesterday) deaths today.
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
~Khalil Gibran
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