Wedding Season

“Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean--the one who has flung herself out

of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down --

who is gazing around 

with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, 

how to fall downinto the grass, 

how to kneel in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, 

how to stroll through the fields

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do 

With your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

It's wedding season for so many including us --

and this weekend we will be celebrating

the first wedding in our little family --

the wedding of our son, 

Ben to his beautiful fiancé Ally!

It is a joy, I now can relate to, 

to see your child find a wonderful

life partner

and begin their life together.

Joyous wishes to all.