Since I am on the road and do not have the cat waking me up at 5 a.m. I am posting these blogs a little later than usual. I’m also feeling a bit jet-lagged. Three hours is not a huge time change but if you believe that it takes as many days to recover I’m only on Day 2.<\/p>\n
My friend is getting married today. I blogged about her a while back. She’s the gal who was more interested in taking stock of her emotional process than her guest list. Two other friends of mine are turning 40 today. It’s a big day.<\/p>\n
I am not yet 40 and I have never been married. I’m imagining what it would be like to be my girlfriend, the one who is getting hitched, right now, this morning, a few hours before she says “I do.”<\/p>\n
I’d be freaking out!<\/p>\n
Well, maybe not. Maybe I’d be cool as a cucumber, ready to seal the deal, commit for life, tie those two loose ends into a knot.<\/p>\n
No, I’d be freaking out.<\/p>\n
I’ve been proposed to twice in my life. Once by a man in a bar in Dawson City and once by I man I truly loved and had a strong desire to marry.<\/p>\n
Neither one worked out.<\/p>\n
My mother, who has been married to my father for 41 years, raised me and my three sisters to be fiercely independent. She actually warned us against<\/span> getting married for as long as the four of us can remember.<\/p>\n “It’s a patriarchal custom meant to secure property and wealth,” she’d tell us.<\/p>\n All four of us are now in our early-to-late-thirties. None of us are married. But the first one of us will be by next year.<\/p>\n We’ve come a long way, baby.<\/p>\n Today is a grey day. It’s not ideal for a wedding. Or a birthday party. But I will celebrate with my friends these rites of passage despite the gloomy atmosphere. The birds are still singing. I can hear them through the window, open just a crack.<\/p>\n Inspiring Message of the Day: This is a wondrous life. There are so many possibilities. What is worth celebrating? Find something and rejoice in it. Look beyond the grey into the fullness of be-ing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I am on the road and do not have the cat waking me up at 5 a.m. I am posting these blogs a little later than usual. I’m also feeling a bit jet-lagged. Three hours is not a huge time change but if you believe that it takes as many days to recover I’m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebration","category-inspiration","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}