Just Dance
Returned from a wedding in Michigan. We received the invitation from a couple on my wife’s side of our family.
No two weddings are alike. Two family groups are brought together in celebration of a beginning of life-together for two adults who have been recipients of parent’s devotion. The endeavor of parents to enable their children to make a life-changing promise to each other is a major accomplishment. The ritual of a wedding is no less than the exchange of a vow, each to the other that they will be “all in” to give solicitude to one another, for the arc of the journey ahead.
Could any engaged young couple imagine what the future might entail? With enough years of life to look back upon, it’s barely possible to describe the challenges of all types that have marked us. In any case, every couple’s relationship journey will be different. Their time and place will be theirs alone. The lessons which one has learned remain entirely personal; that type of learning is not transferable.
I enjoyed the entire occasion of the ritual of exchange of vows and the reception that followed. This wonderful occasion reminded me, how sacred and how fragile are our relationships with one another. Each individual has a life experience that has made him or her who they are presently. The intersections of cause and effect that “make us” extending backward in time generation by generation of ancestors, are almost all, hidden from us. We are social animals, others are necessary to aid us to recognize what is good and valuable in us. Those qualities can be cultivated and offered to those who are to come.
Is it ridiculous to suggest that music, the wild abandon of dancing is the “best” aspect of a wedding? This tune from 1978 is still popular, the dance floor filled when this one was played by the DJ. YMCA by the Village People. Enjoy!
