Hi friends!
My cousin's awesome little wedding was held at a wine warehouse in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, and I'm not sure he knew it but I just love words -- they turn me on, I get jazzed letting them bounce around in my mind like clothes in the dryer, seeking new meanings and points of view.
Well, I was honored and humbled that he and his wife chose me to read at their wedding, and when I got the reading and saw it was a beautiful passage from Hemingway, not the Bible, I got very excited and picked apart the prose for meaning, learning and analyzing it with more than one person.
I think I'll keep this tradition and choose some of my favorite non-biblical passages to be read at my wedding. Maybe some Emerson, or the Tao te Ching.
In any case, here's what they chose -- I admit that by the time I read it for the crowd I got a little emotional (from A Farewell to Arms):
“At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”
Congrats Nate and Emily!
Love,
Joe