The Man Behind The Myth
This is a personal post. So if you have the patience to put up with it, I appreciate it. If not, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.
Today is my husband’s birthday.
So rather than talk about you, or me, I’m going to talk about him today.
And yes, referencing myself as a “myth” is coming it a bit strong, since I’m neither the Goddess of Love, nor the Earth Goddess, nor the Mother Goddess. I’m just me. But it made for a good headline… right?
My husband and I “met” online 13 years ago. I know that is passé nowadays, but think back to 1998; if you were exploring online dating in any way, shape or form, you were a peculiar creature. Not to mention it just wasn’t done, let alone heard of, in India (which is where I’m from and lived at the time). But as fate would have it, we “met” even though he was in California and I was in India, liked each other, and one thing led to another and he asked me to marry him.
Over email.
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Love, Remarkable
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.
It is often characterized – sometimes caricatured – as the only time of year Americans make their annual visit “home.”
And, more often than not, eat too much, drink too much, fight too much, and vow never to do to it again… until they do it all over again the following year.
But what it really is, is a remarkable declaration of love.
A decade ago
Until I moved to the U.S. in 2000, Thanksgiving really didn’t mean anything to me.
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