Sunday, November 27, 2011

Time Lapse

Time stood still for a small moment this past week (Don't you just love that I used a measurement of time to define a period of timelessness? In fact, try to define timelessness without measuring it at all in someway. Tough stuff.) My sister, Carley did something incredibly reckless and got married, to someone else, on Black Friday.

Funny thing is, I have never seen her happier.

Really, coming from a guy who cut his teeth on making people laugh and smile, that is something to say. But I can't honestly think of a time when she smiled bigger or longer than when they were pronounced husband and wife. She nearly launched right out of the room.

As a big brother of three ladies, I have now allowed two, to be married - which is, again, something I never thought I would let happen. But it was an interesting moment for me, amidst all the chaos of the post-Thanksgiving merchandise massacre and the hormones of a bride and her entourage, to stop and realize how happy my sisters are with their husbands. There is a little bit of magic there, something we forget about; something I am obviously failing to capture with alliteration and punctuation-but people still get married, happily and strive to live for another person.

I think perhaps I just got lost in polotics and tabloids that keep screaming about the failures of society and the need to fix everything, and thus forgot that if two people really care about each other, things seem to work out. Props to my parents for surviving four crazy children...and me. Congrats to Nichelle and Matthew for their happy years of marriage. Best of luck to Carley and Paul; its going to be a fun ride. And lastly, many thanks to my wife for dealing with me thus far. Our little moment of timelessness is measured in laughs and tears - mostly tears that come from laughs because, lets be honest; I am just THAT funny - and one beautiful little girl who has not ceased to amaze.

It is my hope that the happiness continues, in-spite of the world around.