The Second New Anniversay
So here we are again - two years down the road. The official date is 21st - mine is 20th. Either way - here we are again. I seem to incur “how sad” and “poor you” responses to posts like this.
Please … not this time. This time I am proud!
Proud to have shared my life with my best bud, friend, partner, lover, mother, wife, most perfect for me human being ever. Together we created four new human beings who have created their own new human beings. Together we learned so much, became so much, and figured out the important stuff. Together we made mistake after mistake, forgave and accepted, got it wrong and got it right. Together we were Paul and Mandy, mum and dad, nana and grandad. Together we were and always will be. And I am proud of all of us - our four children and spouses and grandchildren, my brother and sisters, my work and life friends, of the highs and lows, the laughter and the tears. I am proud that we have all survived the past two years and are looking ahead. I am proud of me and everything I have been and become these past two years. I am proud to sense Mandy in me, around me, to know she is somewhere in a place of the purest, most powerful and beautifulest love.
Love so pure it has neither transaction nor validation nor disappointment … Love that is present and perfect. I am proud that my Mandy has shown me so much in the past two years. We live on with a love too huge to be exclusive, too strong to be fragile, to present to be mourned. So two years on I am proud of us - perhaps even prouder - than I ever have been. This new anniversary is developing and growing as all our forty together-anniversaries grew and developed.
So please be happy for us: Mandy-Mum-Nana and Paul-Dad-Happy Grandad. Please be happy for me: on this new second anniversary remember everything good. Please celebrate love: past, present and future.
Thank you.
Both of us –
💃🕺
Xxx
And this – a little video of our last year and how much living has happened ….