Comments on: Thoughts on a wedding

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:31:38 +0000

I couldn’t help but remember their former selves, hardly older than their own child is today.

It is well to be reminded that the parents we remember were just kids finding their way.

By: stumbley

stumbley — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:44:28 +0000

My wife’s parents divorced after 26 years, but it was apparently relatively amicable. Both have since remarried people much more suited to their respective temperaments. The interesting thing about this arrangement to me is that our family has now been augmented by two new people that we would not normally have known, and that my kids had *three* sets of grandparents. The two new couples are very cordial to each other, and attend all of our family gatherings and holidays. Whatever the circumstances were that drove my wife’s parents apart initially seem to have been forgotten; they and their new spouses genuinely like each other and, in fact, live just minutes apart and see each other socially with regularity.

Proving, I guess, that love does conquer all, and with the right mate, everything in the world looks just fine.

By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:24:26 +0000

In these days of strife and seemingly, and probably, intractable differences it is good to be reminded through humanity that bad times can be overcome and that hope for the future brings happiness.

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:15:35 +0000

Aren’t they thankful, though, to have participated in the disaster which produced such a lovely bride! Here is a pic of my parents, ages 70 and 79: http://thumbsnap.com/v/wDH1g4fM.jpg

By: goesh

goesh — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:21:17 +0000

Those of us who have had some hen-pecking in our day are less inclined to weep profusely at weddings.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:28:36 +0000

There’s a greeting card available these days (I see it at CVS all the time) that shows a bride and groom joyously walking from their wedding ceremony, but the faces have been altered so that they are the faces of two very young children. Inside the card it says, “How you look to your parents on your wedding day.” My own children are still in their early teens, but I bought the card and put it away for future use because I thought it was so good.

By: sigmund, carl and alfred

sigmund, carl and alfred — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:14:57 +0000

Love, marriage, life.

It all seems so simple, doesn’t it?

By: Sissy Willis

Sissy Willis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:54:14 +0000

The most beautiful wedding photograph I’ve ever seen . . . Can you reveal the location?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:08:17 +0000

I don’t get it; what does this have to do with war?

By: stumbley

stumbley — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:36:26 +0000

“I don’t get it; what does this have to do with war?”

…as in “All’s fair in love and…”

By: Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:23:41 +0000

My (second) wife and I had a reading at our wedding, a poem by Rumi, “The Drunkards,” with a line, “Those with ribs showing, who have been grazing in the old pasture of love, are turning up fat and frisky.”

By: knuckledragger

knuckledragger — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:00:25 +0000

What does this have to do with war?

Easy. This post shows that neo-neocon won’t be sliding around on the war any time soon because she’s actually a social conservative as well. And I mean that in the nicest possible way — I’m one of them, too. I became one after trying some other approaches to life and finding out they didn’t work.

BTW, Sunrise, Sunset is a great song when performed by the right musicians. It’s got a wonderful bridge with a great key change.

By: nan

nan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:26:55 +0000

Hmmm.. well thanks for making me cry. I knew I shouldn’t have read this today, but couldn’t resist. My son’s wedding is this weekend, and momma is having a wee bit of a hard time accepting the fact that her lil boy is going to have to answer to another female soon! HA!