I recall a conversation Trudy and I had during the New Year, it was about 2008. She was saying how she just felt that this was going to be a life-changing year for all of us, that there would be exciting, momentous things ahead. She was right. Between the four of us we've convocated, gotten fellowships, been accepted into graduate school, experienced the first year of married life and oh yes, I got engaged last Saturday =)

On the night of summer solstice, Kev, his good friend John and I sat around a campfire for hours not needing to say anything. We just sat there, stirred the fire every now and then, made a s'more or two and drank our tea. That night the rain woke us all up from sleep and we lay there for a good half hour just listening to it come down on our tent, safe in the knowledge that the boys had done a good job of putting up our tarp and we'd stay dry. There's a feeling deeper than happiness; there's contentment and peace and satisfaction with how your life is unfolding. Trust and hope that the future will bring more of the same.

In the midst of wedding planning: venues, dresses, flowers, favours, invitations, guest lists and the accompanying chaos, what I'd like to remember most is this. That the point is not one day. That the end goal cannot be circled on your daytimer. That what is beautiful is not the way in which the church will be decorated, but the sight unseen, non-exchangeable, non-refundable commitment to the life ahead.

Returning to Edmonton, convocation, packing up and moving down. Life has been a little nuts and maybe later, I will take the time to stop, breathe and think about how different it'll all be from now on.

For now, I would like to say that while cleaning out my room today, I found my sticker book!!! And it brought back happy memories of bartering and begging my mom/piano teacher/aunties for stickers and counting my pennies and trying to decide whether I really could afford to spend 99 cents for a set of fuzzy panda stickers. And that made me happy.

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This is absolutely my favorite picture from the wedding =) Once again, congrats to Lindy and Sumeet (who we somehow managed to leave out of the picture despite him being the second most important person there because everyone knows that it's the bride who is the REAL star)!!!

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Life often seems to revolve around those big events in our life: graduations, weddings, deaths. So many times, my best friends and I have said that what we really want to be there for, what makes a best friendship work is being there for the small events. The ones that you would never take a picture of but which are equally importance nonetheless.

This last week and the one ahead are 'big event' weeks for me. One friend had a beautiful wedding ceremony on Saturday, and after 4 years I will convocate alongside 129 other classmates this coming Friday. But today was filled with so many other little moments that I wish would I could hold in my memory alongside the big ones. The world's most evil email in all its evil glory=) All the laughter which ensues when you are not the recipient of evil email. Knowing that a friendship can go through some pretty awful rough patches and come out bruised but intact enough to have a conversation like today's, that means something and deserves to be memorialized as much as any other event. I love my girls.

Labels: Big and small