Like sands through the hourglass, so our days of our lives
February 5th marks my and Tatjana’s two year anniversary – this time, two years ago, on Fat Tuesday I spotted Tatjana standing in front of Mimi’s in the Marigny as the St. Ann parade approached. I was dressed as a red angel and she as a Peruvian cowgirl. We have lived one zillion lifetimes in the last two years and every grain of sand that has passed through the hourglass has gone into our foundation.
Let’s not make this an anniversary of yesterdays, I feel our story has always been about our todays and tomorrows. Our anniversary that we celebrate both on February 5th and Fat Tuesday every year is about the celebration of memories in the making.
To T – a haiku by Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield:
Nothing
in the world
is usual today.
This is
the first morning.