First Anniversary Special

One of my summer projects has been thoroughly going through our wedding and honeymoon photos and 1) creating photo books and 2) organizing them for online sharing and backup. KodakGallery.ca has proven a useful, if not flawless, tool for this project. The amount of time and energy I have spent on it reminds me of how much we usually live life in the present. Not that that is a bad thing. C.S. Lewis takes great pains to remind people (satirically) in the Screwtape Letters that the Present is the only time that humans have freedom and actuality; it is in the present moment that they are closest to the experience of the Divine.

Our histories also help create what we are in the present. The fullest way to experience the moment, I believe, is to feel time as an eddy: past and present (and maybe future, though that can only be sensed, not perceived) all existing in a circle.

So, to mark our first anniversary last week, here are a couple of people's artistic statements on Love.

Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love" is one of my favourite love songs - maybe the favourite, if I had to pick just one. And this video is almost as good as the song (unusual). I can't think of a better expression of love in a marriage. Bryan and I also both like Leonard Cohen, and we both enjoy dancing.

For the second piece, I just happened across Paul Ford's writing today. What a great sense he has of the comedy and drama of life. I love it (and I laugh). Bryan and I both enjoy the absurdity and humour of people (meaning ourselves, and often others). And we both like to go off on enlightening tangents when discussing anything. There's nothing like a great tangent and a great person to go on with it. (Or is that "go with it on?" I can't seem to find a grammatically correct way to say that.)

Here is Paul's essay on "100 ways to say I Love You."

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/how-to-say-i-love-you