Usually I like to open with a quote and then move on to writing the blog post. Today, still coming down to earth from our wedding just over a week ago, most of the post is quotes. Here are a few readings that opened our wedding ceremony, read by friends and K's sister. That turned out to be a wise choice, because we were immediately too choked up with emotion to speak any more than our vows.
"Lazy loved Pubah and loved loving her. Out past the edges of the world's agreement, beyond even her own standards, her own approval, the rules of her childhood, beyond even her own mind, she loved her and loved loving her. The loving brought forth in her all of her courage as well as all of her limitations, all of her blind desire to be like the others, to melt in, to be invisible. It took her out of the roles she thought she would grow up to fill. It took her away from her automatic stream of pictures of what life should be and forced her to create her own version of what life could be. And beyond all of that was the woman she loved, living a life made from nothing more than her own imagination, and she was beautiful."
— Andrea Carlisle, from The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World
i carry your heart with me
— ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
"Is the key to love in passion, knowledge, affection?
All three—along with moonlight, roses, groceries,
givings and forgivings, gettings and forgettings,
keepsakes and room rent,
pearls of memory along with ham and eggs."
— Carl Sandburg, from "Honey and Salt"
lazy and pubah! so great to be reminded of riverhouse stories! my bride and i used to read that book to each other! great memory.
ReplyDeleteAND, "i carry your heart" was read at OUR wedding! great blog. thanks.
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteI love these readings -- I read that same excerpt from Riverhouse stories 10 years ago when my sister married her wife (before marriage was legal).
My wife and I were recently legally married in California and a good friend of ours read that ee cummings poem -- my sister read Litany by Billy Collins at our wedding (I adore Billy Collins), my brother read a poem that he wrote, and some other family members and friends read Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Khalil Gibran.
Congratulations, again!!
thanks moya and leanne and congrats on being legally wed! all three of these readings have been part of our relationship over its 17 years. we also read The Riverhouse Stories aloud to each other (more than once!), and the phrase "moonlight, roses, groceries" appears regularly in our daily life.
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