Salt of the Earth

14 years ago today- around this time I married my hubby. My grandma and grandpa were there too. It was very special. We were married at my mom’s house by a JOP in front of her kiva fire place. We wrote our own vows and played the love song from the Godfather. It started to lightly snow right before I walked through the front door in my wedding dress and veil. My mom had ordered me the most beautiful rose boquet with a few Irises-since those are my favorite flowers. Where she got irises in the dead of winter I will never know. She gave me her pearl earrings that Tom had given her on their wedding day 10 years prior. It was a very small but elegant wedding. I wasn’t nervous.. It just felt right. The only doubt i had in my mind was if I should wear my right shoe or not- since I had stepped on broken glass a day before and it was still lodged in my foot. My mother-in-law told me to take my shoe off right after the ceremony. I did. Isamu was there. Funny, 2 of 10 people at my wedding have died- Isamu and my grandma. Guess that’s part of life. Cause 3 people have gotten married and started families of their own. That whole circle of life thing I guess. It was a good day. It’s been a good 14 years. For better or for worse. But it’s all good.