Our Anniversary
Today, twelve years ago, John and I got married in a small, very small, wedding ceremony...
The grand event took place at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson center—what used to be the college president’s residence. Wilson’s wife, during their tenure there, had a beautiful garden planted that is preserved to this day. Very lovely, and a grand place to begin our lives together. We spent today really looking at our lives, what we are grateful for in our union, what is working, and where our challenges lie. Primarily the latter consists of making our career dreams come true and living a kind of lifestyle that right now is still a dream. Not a rich one in terms of having lots of money, but rich in terms of experience, lots of time to spend together, plenty of traveling, visiting with our dearest friends. And life work that fulfills us and matches up with our deepest values and passions.
On that note, John continues his career quest while I work feverishly (not hard in this heat!) to complete this monster of a dissertation! 279 pages and counting, though hopefully not too much more than that after clean up and revising. I hope to have my final chapter completed by the end of this month and revisions completed by the end of August.
In any case, we have spent the day on such reflections and plan to end it with a candlelit dinner at home and envisioning what is the next stage in our journey together. Very exciting indeed!
The grand event took place at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson center—what used to be the college president’s residence. Wilson’s wife, during their tenure there, had a beautiful garden planted that is preserved to this day. Very lovely, and a grand place to begin our lives together. We spent today really looking at our lives, what we are grateful for in our union, what is working, and where our challenges lie. Primarily the latter consists of making our career dreams come true and living a kind of lifestyle that right now is still a dream. Not a rich one in terms of having lots of money, but rich in terms of experience, lots of time to spend together, plenty of traveling, visiting with our dearest friends. And life work that fulfills us and matches up with our deepest values and passions.
On that note, John continues his career quest while I work feverishly (not hard in this heat!) to complete this monster of a dissertation! 279 pages and counting, though hopefully not too much more than that after clean up and revising. I hope to have my final chapter completed by the end of this month and revisions completed by the end of August.
In any case, we have spent the day on such reflections and plan to end it with a candlelit dinner at home and envisioning what is the next stage in our journey together. Very exciting indeed!
posted by Alexandria at
2:30 PM
2 Comments:
Happy Anniversary, Alex. And congratulations on being so close to the end of your disertation. Sounds like you two are both at very intersting thresholds, and how wonderful the relationship is also able to evovle and grow as you both change individually. Rock on.
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Kathryn, at 4:40 PM
Thanks!! I'm looking at the little picture of you and Jay and it looks really similar to the one of John and I. That is cool. We had a wonderful anniversary day. And even more so with wonderful friends like you encouraging us on!
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Alexandria, at 10:57 AM
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