For Bill, on our 21st anniversary

     

     

     Twenty-one years have passed by

     easily

     as we’ve struggled

     and fought

     and laughed our way through them.

     Transitions --

     there have been many --

     have challenged us

     tipping our equilibrium

     a little to the left

     and then the right.

     Complacency

     never lasting long enough to equal boredom

     and anxiety

     not long enough to equal despair.

     It’s been good.

     It’s been bad.

     It pretty much looks like every other marriage out there.

     The difference is…

     this one’s mine

     and it’s his

     and it’s ours.

 

     And that, my friends,

     is what makes today worth noting.

     For richer or poorer

     in sickness and in health

     to love and to cherish

     to love and to cherish.

-- Hana Haatainen Caye  ©2012