{"id":6359,"date":"2005-07-25T19:13:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/dearly-beloved\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T19:13:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T19:13:35","slug":"dearly-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/dearly-beloved\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearly Beloved"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

It’s our second wedding anniversary today.  <\/p>\n

Now only if D. were here!<\/p>\n

In the gift column, a second anniversary means: Traditional: Cotton. 
\nModern: Paper.  Postmodern: Weblog entry.  And so I can print this
\nbaby out on some dense-woven from Office Max and call it good.  Mmm-hm.
\nWhat?<\/p>\n

They’ll be home from Kenya tomorrow night, she and Ph.  In the meantime,
\nI’m reading and grading end-of-term stuff, dirty-clothes laundering,
\ndish-doing, and mulling over the purchases I just might make on a long overdue
\ntrip to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I should, nonetheless, take this happy anniversary entry as an opportunity to
\nmention that D. is really terrific–patient, thoughtful, sweet, and patient
\n(this could be a much longer list to be sure).  We’ve known each other
\nsince the seventh grade (something like 1985? what the hell…20 years?), times
\nwhen note-passing and three-hour phone conversations helped us get to know each
\nother so well….  (Here, pass this note to D., quick while Mrs. H.
\nisn’t looking.<\/i>)  Skipping around parts of the long version now, this is
\njust to say that it’s unfortunately common for me to underrepresent D.’s
\nremarkably caring presence when I plunk out these weblog entries (heh, or over-represent her absence…gone two whole weeks!?).  Oh, and to say it’s good to have an anniversary with D.  <\/p>\n

I feel like I should have some wine now, or cake or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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