
enter Maple Seed in a Sidewalk Heart © 2012 Bo Mackison
Order Pregabalin Online What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
watch This is a photograph of a metaphor for marriage.
go here See the pretty heart? It was carved out of a part of the pavement on a city sidewalk in Chicago. That seems appropriate. Sherpa and I met on a city street, in Chicago, almost 39 years ago. A stylized heart, such as this one, is a symbol of love, though I always wondered how this shape came to be.
enter site See how the heart is roughly carved? A few hacks and rough spots. Some gouges and uneven outlines. Sounds like most marriages I know. Yes, even the ones that last and last and last. There are gouges and rough spots, but there are a lot more smoothed areas.
https://eternaclinic.com/facial-treatments/ See how some dirt has collected in the creases, in a few of the gouges? How there is a smattering of grit and grime around the heart? Well, even in a good marriage, there is great deal of day-to-day clean-up that is required. Most of the grit gets swept away, a bit remains. That’s OK. Marriage is a committed relationship between two imperfect people. No marriage is perfect. But this particular marriage I am writing about has had some perfect moments, some great, and a lot of good enough.
enter site See the maple seed? It’s a bit bedraggled, a bit dirtied by street traffic, but it’s all in one piece. If you planted the twirly seed, there’s a good chance it would grow into a little tree. And the seed has two parts connected, but still each wing has its own seed. In a lasting marriage, there are together times and separate times. Good recipe for keeping a marriage alive.
https://tuf-top.com/contact-us/ So maybe I am stretching the maple seed metaphor a bit. But that’s OK, too. When I saw the heart and the seed on the sidewalk a couple of weeks ago, I immediately took a photograph with the intention of writing about it and posting it today, June 12th, 2012, in honor of the 36th anniversary of the wedding of Sherpa and Bo.
https://www.travisdewitzcommercial.com/contact/ Happy Anniversary, Sherpa.
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https://timlarison.com/synchronicity-book-review/ Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC. She is taking tonight off – no camera! – and celebrating. Dinner for two in NYC!