Saturday, April 29, 2006
More babylove!
They're just springing up like flowers these days! Congrats to Kwynne, Pam, and their new little wee one, Leandré! Ok, back to bracing my ovaries for the insanely cute baby pics that are sure to come.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Wedding readings: For fun
Some possibilities from the lovey-dovey side of things:
"My true love hath my heart and I have hers,
By just exchange one for another given;
I hold hers dear and mine she cannot miss;
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart and I have hers.
My heart in me keeps her and me in one;
My heart in her, her heart and senses guides;
She loves my heart for once it was her own;
I cherish hers because in me it bides:
My true love hath my heart and I have hers." Sir Philip Sidney
You'll notice, my sister beat me to this one in her comment a few days ago:
"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields
And all the craggy mountains yeilds.
There we will sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love." Christopher Marlowe
This one is so darn cute. Maybe toward the end of the ceremony, for a little levity?
"Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me darling now,
Proving what I need not prove
How I know I love you, love.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are.
Likewise, I have never learnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Far and wide, far and wide,
I can walk with you beside;
Furthermore, I tell you what,
I sit and sulk where you are not.
Visitors remark my frown
When you're upstairs and I am down,
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout
When I'm indoors and you are out;
But how contentedly I view
Any room containing you.
In fact I care not where you be
Just as long as it's with me.
In all your absences I glimpse
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
Is your train a minute slothful?
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
When with friends to bridge you drive
I never know if you're alive,
And when you linger late in shops
I long to telephone the cops.
Yet how worth the waiting for,
To see you coming through the door.
Somehow, I can be complacent
Never but with you adjacent.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise, I have never learnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor,
To hold you in my sight forever;
Let none, not even you, disparage
Such a valid reason for a marriage." Ogden Nash from "Tin Wedding Whistle"
"My true love hath my heart and I have hers,
By just exchange one for another given;
I hold hers dear and mine she cannot miss;
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart and I have hers.
My heart in me keeps her and me in one;
My heart in her, her heart and senses guides;
She loves my heart for once it was her own;
I cherish hers because in me it bides:
My true love hath my heart and I have hers." Sir Philip Sidney
You'll notice, my sister beat me to this one in her comment a few days ago:
"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields
And all the craggy mountains yeilds.
There we will sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love." Christopher Marlowe
This one is so darn cute. Maybe toward the end of the ceremony, for a little levity?
"Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me darling now,
Proving what I need not prove
How I know I love you, love.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are.
Likewise, I have never learnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Far and wide, far and wide,
I can walk with you beside;
Furthermore, I tell you what,
I sit and sulk where you are not.
Visitors remark my frown
When you're upstairs and I am down,
Yes, and I'm afraid I pout
When I'm indoors and you are out;
But how contentedly I view
Any room containing you.
In fact I care not where you be
Just as long as it's with me.
In all your absences I glimpse
Fire and flood and trolls and imps.
Is your train a minute slothful?
I goad the stationmaster wrothful.
When with friends to bridge you drive
I never know if you're alive,
And when you linger late in shops
I long to telephone the cops.
Yet how worth the waiting for,
To see you coming through the door.
Somehow, I can be complacent
Never but with you adjacent.
Near and far, near and far,
I am happy where you are;
Likewise, I have never learnt
How to be it where you aren't.
Then grudge me not my fond endeavor,
To hold you in my sight forever;
Let none, not even you, disparage
Such a valid reason for a marriage." Ogden Nash from "Tin Wedding Whistle"
Wedding readings, from the religious side
More possibilities! These are biblical verses we may use, mostly because we like them, and partly for my parents' sake:
"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; If we love one another, Gob abides in us and his love is perfected in us." I John 4:7-12
I especially like this one:
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let peace rule in your hearts... And be thankful. Let love dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom..." Colossians 3:12-17
Though it is used very frequently, I love these verses (especially as put by Joni Mitchell):
"Although I speak in toungues of men and angels
I'm just sounding brass
And tinkling cymbals without love
Love suffers long
Love is kind!
Enduring all things
Hoping all things
Love has no evil in mind.
If I had the gift of prophesy
And all knowledge
And the faith to move the mountains
Even if I understood all the mysteries
And I didn't have love
I'd be nothing.
Love- never looks for love
Love's not puffed up
Or envious
Or touchy
Because it rejoices in the truth
Not in iniquity.
Love sees like a child sees.
As a child I spoke as a child
I thought and understood as a child
But when I became a woman
I put away childish things
And began to see through a glass darkly.
Where, as a child, I saw it face to face
Now, I only know it in part.
Fractions in me
Of faith and hope and love
And of these great three
Love's the greatest beauty.
Love
Love
Love" I Corinthians 13 as made into a song by Joni Mitchell
"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; If we love one another, Gob abides in us and his love is perfected in us." I John 4:7-12
I especially like this one:
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let peace rule in your hearts... And be thankful. Let love dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom..." Colossians 3:12-17
Though it is used very frequently, I love these verses (especially as put by Joni Mitchell):
"Although I speak in toungues of men and angels
I'm just sounding brass
And tinkling cymbals without love
Love suffers long
Love is kind!
Enduring all things
Hoping all things
Love has no evil in mind.
If I had the gift of prophesy
And all knowledge
And the faith to move the mountains
Even if I understood all the mysteries
And I didn't have love
I'd be nothing.
Love- never looks for love
Love's not puffed up
Or envious
Or touchy
Because it rejoices in the truth
Not in iniquity.
Love sees like a child sees.
As a child I spoke as a child
I thought and understood as a child
But when I became a woman
I put away childish things
And began to see through a glass darkly.
Where, as a child, I saw it face to face
Now, I only know it in part.
Fractions in me
Of faith and hope and love
And of these great three
Love's the greatest beauty.
Love
Love
Love" I Corinthians 13 as made into a song by Joni Mitchell
Wedding readings, Part 1
These are some of the possibilities for the invitations, the ceremony, or for the decorations.
"My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart's beat." Paul Valery
"Let not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this is error, and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd." Shakespeare
"I know not whether thou has been absent:
I lie down with thee, I rise up with thee,
In my dreams thou art with me.
If my eardrops tremble in my ears,
I know it is thou moving within my heart." Aztec love song
"Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth
my beloved walks on.
Let the fire of my body be the brightness
in the mirror that reflects her face.
Let the water of my body join the waters
of the lotus pool she bathes in.
Let the breath of my body be airlapping her tired limbs.
Let me be sky, and moving through me
... my beloved." Hindu love poem
"My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart's beat." Paul Valery
"Let not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this is error, and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd." Shakespeare
"I know not whether thou has been absent:
I lie down with thee, I rise up with thee,
In my dreams thou art with me.
If my eardrops tremble in my ears,
I know it is thou moving within my heart." Aztec love song
"Let the earth of my body be mixed with the earth
my beloved walks on.
Let the fire of my body be the brightness
in the mirror that reflects her face.
Let the water of my body join the waters
of the lotus pool she bathes in.
Let the breath of my body be airlapping her tired limbs.
Let me be sky, and moving through me
... my beloved." Hindu love poem
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Welcome, Natalie!
And congratulations, moms! It's been so wonderful to watch Jen and Cait's journey so far, and now we are so privileged to witness that of their daughter, Natalie Claire, too! Yay!
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