commitment ceremony, daniel

Four years ago Thursday, Daniel performed Robert's and my commitment ceremony. I was just rereading his words. He spoke of our committing to each other, marking a milestone along our journey together, while the larger community of friends gathered and friends not present made a commitment to us. He said:

Friendships are the sacred threads that weave the web of life, and the ties of friendship can help to bind our seemingly fragmentary lives into something like whole things. Part of living in community, however defined, is supporting each other through all of the things life brings to us. Moments of rich reward, ... times of sorrow and loss, and everything that spans the spectrum in between. The everydayness and the extraordinary, the peaks and the sloughs. We all need one another in all of these times.

So true. I am grateful to Daniel for performing our ceremony and managing to capture in words all that we felt on that lovely day. He will be in our hearts today, as present as he can be from his resting spot in Maine, as we experience the moments of rich reward and the moments of sorrow and loss, a great deal of life in one short day.