52 Card Project 2022: Week 27: Janus
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pegkerrEvery July 6 for the last 36 years, I have eaten strawberries and cream for breakfast.
This past Tuesday, July 5, was my 36th wedding anniversary. We spent our wedding night at the Sofitel and the next morning, I included a portion of strawberries and cream with my room service order. They tasted so incredibly delicious to me. Well, perhaps it's not so much that they were particularly delicious, but that I was so incandescently happy. I decided right then and there that I would always have strawberries and cream for breakfast on July 6, to remember that moment, that demarcation of my first day as a happily married woman.
This July 6, however, besides being the day I ate strawberries and cream, was significant for another reason: it was the first day I outlived Rob in age. I spent my entire marriage four and a half years younger than him. But it has been four and a half years since he died, and from now on, this date would mark another demarcation: from this day forward, I would be older than him, older than he had ever been...without him.
This Wednesday, July 6, was also notable for something else: after a mere five days of planning, my nephew and his fiancée got married in a small and simple ceremony at my sister's lovely lakeside home. My nephew is the first one of Fiona and Delia's cousins on my side of the family to marry. A new threshold has been reached for this generation.
As I pondered this, I started thinking about the Roman god Janus, the god of thresholds, of transitions, and of marriage. Janus is a two-headed god, looking back in the past and forward into the future. And so I took a picture from my wedding day that the photographer referred to as a "ring picture," as the position of our hands was meant to show off our wedding rings. I never particularly noticed the rings in this picture though; I just saw how incredibly happy and in love we looked. I used my bridal picture for one half of the Janus head, and a picture of myself taken yesterday, on July 6 for the other half of the Janus head. Not as young, not as incandescent. As you can undoubtedly see, it's been 36 years.
Also pictured: the strawberries I had for breakfast yesterday morning, and the hands of my nephew and his new wife, showing off their new wedding rings.
Oceans of love to both of you, my dears. May you enjoy a lifetime of incandescent love and happiness...and all the strawberries and cream you can possibly eat.
Janus
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This past Tuesday, July 5, was my 36th wedding anniversary. We spent our wedding night at the Sofitel and the next morning, I included a portion of strawberries and cream with my room service order. They tasted so incredibly delicious to me. Well, perhaps it's not so much that they were particularly delicious, but that I was so incandescently happy. I decided right then and there that I would always have strawberries and cream for breakfast on July 6, to remember that moment, that demarcation of my first day as a happily married woman.
This July 6, however, besides being the day I ate strawberries and cream, was significant for another reason: it was the first day I outlived Rob in age. I spent my entire marriage four and a half years younger than him. But it has been four and a half years since he died, and from now on, this date would mark another demarcation: from this day forward, I would be older than him, older than he had ever been...without him.
This Wednesday, July 6, was also notable for something else: after a mere five days of planning, my nephew and his fiancée got married in a small and simple ceremony at my sister's lovely lakeside home. My nephew is the first one of Fiona and Delia's cousins on my side of the family to marry. A new threshold has been reached for this generation.
As I pondered this, I started thinking about the Roman god Janus, the god of thresholds, of transitions, and of marriage. Janus is a two-headed god, looking back in the past and forward into the future. And so I took a picture from my wedding day that the photographer referred to as a "ring picture," as the position of our hands was meant to show off our wedding rings. I never particularly noticed the rings in this picture though; I just saw how incredibly happy and in love we looked. I used my bridal picture for one half of the Janus head, and a picture of myself taken yesterday, on July 6 for the other half of the Janus head. Not as young, not as incandescent. As you can undoubtedly see, it's been 36 years.
Also pictured: the strawberries I had for breakfast yesterday morning, and the hands of my nephew and his new wife, showing off their new wedding rings.
Oceans of love to both of you, my dears. May you enjoy a lifetime of incandescent love and happiness...and all the strawberries and cream you can possibly eat.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.
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