met on a blind date in 2002,
It's as if the 1 were always 2 were always 3.
They make an excellent team.
Henry, Chad & Missy hiking in Butte, MT - July 2009
The traditional 5th Anniversary gift is wood.
This family of lovely souls live in metro Minneapolis-St. Paul and, naturally, this sister forgot to send them any sort of greetings for this milestone and certainly is not, today, Fed Exing to them shingles or figurines or, as this website recommends,
a Bonsai Tree.
So instead, I paste here some wisdom from the Indigo Girls.
(from 1994's Swamp Ophelia,
from "the wood song" by Emily Saliers)
.... now I see we're in the boat in two by twos
only the heart that we have for a tool we could use
and the very close quarters are hard to get used to
love weighs the hull down with its weight
but the wood is tired and the wood is old
and we'll make it fine if the weather holds
but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point
that's were i need to go
no way construction of this tricky plan
was built by other than a greater hand
with a love that passes all our understanding
watching closely over the journey
yeah but what it takes to cross the great divide
seems more than all the courage i can muster up inside
but we get to have some answers when we reach the other side
the prize is always worth the rocky ride
sometimes i ask to sneak a closer look
skip to the final chapter of the book
and maybe steer us clear from some of the pain that it took
to get us where we are this far
but the question drowns in its futility
and even i have got to laugh at me
cause no one gets to miss the storm of what will be
just holding on for the ride
the wood is tired the wood is old
and we'll make it fine if the weather holds
but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point
that's where i need to go
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