This is here. This is now.

My husband and I drove for 4 hours to come to his niece's wedding.   Tomorrow, she adds a whole crowd of people to her family.  And they are nice.  They are fun. I'm sure that they have all the crazy that families have, but right now they are celebrating this young couple who are planning to look after each other.  As are her family of origin.

Tonight and tomorrow, there is joy.

Totally Meatspace

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Do you hear me,
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooooh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 

Savoring all the flavors

Salty, sweet, blue, fear, umami, love, puce, rage, chocolate, delight, despair, sour, silly, creamy, slippery, spicy, verdant, breezy, warm, nippy, nippley, honey, sun, lavender, burn, sharp, mellow, razor blade hot, golden, burning cold, soft, tingly, harsh, magenta, ruby, wind, scarlet, dawn, mauve, tight, rank, smooth, coffee, rainy, jasmine ....

My husband

I married Jay when I was 22 and (2 years later) we moved to Charleston. We had Christopher when I was 31. I don't think he really wanted to be a father, but felt like he was supposed to. And knew I intended to be a mother, so that was part of the deal.

When Christopher was 2.5, I left and moved to NC.

When he was 6, I married Bill, the Evil Stepfather. It didn't start that way, but it is Christopher's perception. And he was truly an asshole for the second half of the marriage.

When we had been married 6 years, I kicked him to the curb. Not quite a year later, I bought this house.

Three years later I met Chuck. Chuck was not optional. He was who I was hoping those other 2 guys were. We didn't GET married. We ARE married. We were created for each other when the Universe first breathed out Reality.

There were other relationships between there an here, but they were all practice and refiners for this.

Just sayin'.