Joanna and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary tonight with dinner at Hyde Park (compliments of her thoughtful family).

It was ten years ago from yesterday that I married my best friend. I’m so glad we made that decision and decided not to wait any longer.

This poem from Margaret Atwood titled “Habitation” reminds me a lot of these last ten years. Sometimes I feel like we are just learning how to make fire.

Marriage is not a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder


the edge of the forest, the edge of the desert
the unpainted stairs at the back where we squat outside

eating popcorn


the edge of the receding glacier where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even this far


we are learning to make fire

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