For one thing, we know it flies. Especially when you're having fun!
In my last post, I mentioned that Astrid and I were getting married here in Holland on February 5, a week ago. Can I believe it's already a week later? NO. See? That's what I mean. Time does that. It plays tricks on you.
The above image is the one I posted on my Shutterchance blog the day of our wedding. It's the sundial on the side of the Grote Kerk (Big Church) two blocks from our apartment. Astrid and I were photo hunting on January 1 after a delightful New Year's Eve celebration here at our senior-living complex. We woke up to a bright, sunshiny day, the beginning of a new year...and walked around our citadel city with our cameras in hand, doing what we love to do.
Now, look at the time. Can you read a sundial? I always laugh when I see a sundial like this on the side of a church, thinking of all those people who had no excuse for not getting to church on time (remember, my dad was a preacher!). I "collect" sundials (as I do windmills and clock towers and construction cranes and weathervanes) and then I laugh because...I have no clue how to tell sundial time, especially if the sun isn't shining (guess that's why it's a SUN dial!). Most of it never makes sense to me. Nor have I ever Googled to figure it out. But if I'm not mistaken, it's 2 o'clock, right?
Guess when Astrid and I got married last Friday! Yup. 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Did we know on January 1, 2010, we were going to be married on February 5, 2010, at 2 o'clock? NO.
Call it coinky-dink. Call it serendipity. But don't you just love it when you get to a certain age and have all these experiences under your belt that make you smile. They're AHA! moments in time.
By the way, it was the best day of our lives together thus far! And YOU helped to make it that way by all your fabulous best wishes. THANK YOU. You made Time stand still for us. It was an "eternalized moment." THANK YOU.
In my last post, I mentioned that Astrid and I were getting married here in Holland on February 5, a week ago. Can I believe it's already a week later? NO. See? That's what I mean. Time does that. It plays tricks on you.
The above image is the one I posted on my Shutterchance blog the day of our wedding. It's the sundial on the side of the Grote Kerk (Big Church) two blocks from our apartment. Astrid and I were photo hunting on January 1 after a delightful New Year's Eve celebration here at our senior-living complex. We woke up to a bright, sunshiny day, the beginning of a new year...and walked around our citadel city with our cameras in hand, doing what we love to do.
Now, look at the time. Can you read a sundial? I always laugh when I see a sundial like this on the side of a church, thinking of all those people who had no excuse for not getting to church on time (remember, my dad was a preacher!). I "collect" sundials (as I do windmills and clock towers and construction cranes and weathervanes) and then I laugh because...I have no clue how to tell sundial time, especially if the sun isn't shining (guess that's why it's a SUN dial!). Most of it never makes sense to me. Nor have I ever Googled to figure it out. But if I'm not mistaken, it's 2 o'clock, right?
Guess when Astrid and I got married last Friday! Yup. 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Did we know on January 1, 2010, we were going to be married on February 5, 2010, at 2 o'clock? NO.
Call it coinky-dink. Call it serendipity. But don't you just love it when you get to a certain age and have all these experiences under your belt that make you smile. They're AHA! moments in time.
By the way, it was the best day of our lives together thus far! And YOU helped to make it that way by all your fabulous best wishes. THANK YOU. You made Time stand still for us. It was an "eternalized moment." THANK YOU.
(If you wish to see our online
wedding album, just let me know.)
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