Originally posted by Pale Rider
I love weddings.... when they're someone else's... 
He-he-he.
Thanks for the blessings, all.
I'm going to cut and paste a p.m. I just sent as I NEED to take a nap.
A wonderful wedding weekend full of family, friends and festivities.
I went with the following poem as a reading prior to their exchange of vows, after much thought:
Fidelity
by D.H. Lawrence
Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers
in summer, and love, but underneath is rock.
Older than flowers, older than ferns, older than foraminiferae,
older than plasm altogether is the soul underneath.
And when, throughout all the wild chaos of love
slowly a gem forms, in the ancient, once-more-molten rocks
of two human hearts, two ancient rocks,
a man's heart and a woman's,
that is the crystal of peace, the slow hard jewel of trust,
the sapphire of fidelity.
The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love.
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Completely by accident, as I was reading this poem, I turned to my mother and Mike just as I said the words "two ancient rocks"(they are 55 and 60, respectively). This elicited a torrent of laughter from the audience. I wasn't sure why they were laughing, thought I messed up a word or something. Then I realized the implication that they were two "ancient rocks."
Well, nice to make people laugh when I wasn't even trying.
Anyways, thanks for the kind words.
Naptime.
-James
, may the fleas of 1000 camels nest in thy [fill in the blank]...
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