Wedding day memories linger 26 years later

Even as some of the details of that day, like our energy levels, have faded slightly during the past quarter century, that feeling has endured as we’ve built a beautifully imperfect and loving life in the beloved community of our given and chosen families.

Today, that feeling of home that enveloped me that day returned as Dunreith and I engaged in quiet, ordinary activities that increasingly make up life’s meaning interspersed with moments of memory of the labor we undertook in the shadow of the tree that mirrored the family we had pledged to become.

I can no longer remember the precise clothing I wore, each element of the ceremony, or exactly what I said to Aidan in the space Dunreith and I built for each of us to speak from the heart to him.