today is my husband's birthday. this is the first time he's celebrated it out of the country and i feel so lucky he's celebrating it with me.
over lunch, we were reminiscing about when we first met -- him at 25 and me at 23. i remarked that we were just kids back then, because we were. it's been over 6 years that we've been together and our relationship has developed over time as we were changing on our own.
today is also my mother's birthday. it's hard to believe that she had me over 30 years ago now. i've been told by my parents, my in-laws, my husband's grandmother that time passes in the blink of an eye. i've felt this myself -- how did i manage to turn 30 all of a sudden?
today is also my mother's birthday. it's hard to believe that she had me over 30 years ago now. i've been told by my parents, my in-laws, my husband's grandmother that time passes in the blink of an eye. i've felt this myself -- how did i manage to turn 30 all of a sudden?
the good thing about being here is that there is no concept of time -- no watches, no schedules, no places to be, no commitments to uphold. here, time is measured by the sun's journey across the sky, by the birds waking us up in the mornings, by our bellies telling us we're hungry. here, time is like the sand in the ocean beneath our feet -- ever present, but hidden under blue-green waters.
i love this post. i actually kept it under a word document labeled "glo's writings" in my computer lol. i like that you connected your life to the concept of time at the place you were. very reflective. you could put a pic of an hourglass here to go with "sands of time"!
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