Ten years is a long time when you think ahead.. Looking back it seems like a drop in the bucket of time.
A decade can bring significant changes.. It is simultaneously frightening and rewarding.. it is filled with laughter and joy, sadness and grief..
And it is the number of years since my wife Tara and I were married.
October 20, 2007.. before iPhones.. Myspace was king. Rihanna just opened her Umbrella and the world didn’t have a President Trump. Let alone a President Obama.
A decade of time has moved us from one place to another–but yet as much as things change so often monumental non-changes also occur. The sameness of life is what may be surprising. Yes, there are alternations in timelines that separate us from what we were then. But we are who we are.. a little weathered by life’s uncertainties.. a little more dour on the downturns.. but creatures who are determined to make most of every moment.
Despite being in our late 20s when we said YES, we were kids. We still are.. I think even at the age of 70 we will be–as you are as well. Children of time. Children of God. Just creatures learning in this big open classroom on the pale blue dot in space.
The most life changing factor over the past ten years is what we have been doing for nearly seven of them: Parenting. Those joys are endless.. challenges tiring.. and rewards leave us speechless.
Tonight, so as long as all goes well, we will have an anniversary dinner together at the same table that Tara first said yes to me when I proposed Christmas 2006, at Martin’s Restaurant in Hazleton, a wonderful place with amazing fresh and creative food.
After that we will unpause our brief pause and go back to life. With all of its uncertainties and uncharted courses into the future.
Let the good times roll.
