Wooden Anniversary
July 11, 2009
Today Rebekah and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. Apparently this is known as the “wood” or “wooden” anniversary, which seems like a fairly prosaic substance with which to honor something as tumultuous and vibrant and precious as these last five years, but I guess the anniversary commemoration divinities have to pace themselves, what with ever-increasing life-expectancies.
We both took the day off from work, and originally had big plans, but since I have been stricken with a nasty little virus since returning from the big retreat, we did not wind up getting into much trouble after all. Yesterday, Rebekah began to show early symptoms of the illness as well, but more or less managed to stare it down, and has been fine since. I think I may well shrug it off by Sunday, so maybe we can make that a more memorable day. The rumor is that we will be seeing some of our favorite people Sunday morning, so we’re already off to a good start.
