Day 2,728 —Ten-Years— with my PICTURE of TWO TREES FRAMING the SUN

Ten-years ago today my wife and I got married in a small outdoor wedding on her family’s farm in Illinois. I was on little sleep. Both of us had worked the week of the wedding and were trying to focus on so much while knowing that we would be going to Belize the day after the wedding. 

I was hanging out with my older brother Ben. My wife and her sister were decorating the trees. Ben and I were drinking coffee driving around on a 4-wheeler. I remember we spent most of the morning laughing, slowly getting ready. 

I have revisited this morning hundreds of times because I edited our wedding video years ago. Every public part of that day has been documented with videos and pictures. So, I still feel connected to that older version of me, while simultaneously that Daniel has been dead and buried for years.

I don’t mean that as a bad thing but just as an awareness of my own identity. I am not able to be the older versions of myself because in the most basic ways I have nothing in common with that twenty-five-year-old Online Support Specialist that was still figuring himself out. 

The crazy thing about my marriage is that we have been able to evolve and change together through the chaos of the rapid transformations that we have both experienced. In celebrating 10-years of marriage I am not only celebrating the holistic view of our marriage but rejoicing in the plethora of stages of togetherness throughout one of the most difficult and rewarding times of our lives. 

I love you dear!