Thursday
Feb112010
It's About Time
February 11, 2010 * * * * * Posted by: Ginnie 
For one thing, we know it flies. Especially when you're having fun!
In my last post, I mentioned that Astrid and I were getting married here in Holland on February 5, a week ago. Can I believe it's already a week later? NO. See? That's what I mean. Time does that. It plays tricks on you.
The above image is the one I posted on my Shutterchance blog the day of our wedding. It's the sundial on the side of the Grote Kerk (Big Church) two blocks from our apartment. Astrid and I were photo hunting on January 1 after a delightful New Year's Eve celebration here at our senior-living complex. We woke up to a bright, sunshiny day, the beginning of a new year...and walked around our citadel city with our cameras in hand, doing what we love to do.
Now, look at the time. Can you read a sundial? I always laugh when I see a sundial like this on the side of a church, thinking of all those people who had no excuse for not getting to church on time (remember, my dad was a preacher!). I "collect" sundials (as I do windmills and clock towers and construction cranes and weathervanes) and then I laugh because...I have no clue how to tell sundial time, especially if the sun isn't shining (guess that's why it's a SUN dial!). Most of it never makes sense to me. Nor have I ever Googled to figure it out. But if I'm not mistaken, it's 2 o'clock, right?
Guess when Astrid and I got married last Friday! Yup. 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Did we know on January 1, 2010, we were going to be married on February 5, 2010, at 2 o'clock? NO.
Call it coinky-dink. Call it serendipity. But don't you just love it when you get to a certain age and have all these experiences under your belt that make you smile. They're AHA! moments in time.
By the way, it was the best day of our lives together thus far! And YOU helped to make it that way by all your fabulous best wishes. THANK YOU. You made Time stand still for us. It was an "eternalized moment." THANK YOU.
(If you wish to see our online wedding album, just let me know.)
Reader Comments (15)
Big congrats on your special day! I would love to see your wedding album.
As to the sundial, I've been fascinated with them since seeing one in my Aunt Wylly's garden as a child. Her sundial had a quote and set the tone for future appreciation for me. I assumed all sundials had quotes and I'm always a little disappointed when I see one that doesn't.
Yes..yes. I love when serendipity just-so happens..when the moon and sun and stars are all in absolute perfect alignment..and when you know everything is just as it's supposed to be.
Again - mazel tov and congratulations to both of you!!!!
Sounds like the perfect day and a perfect posting. It is nice to know that Love can find you..no matter what the time, place, gender or age.
I hope you will have a replica made and hang it in your apartment. Or at least a print framed. It's that special.
I loved raising all three little sparkling wine glasses in my flight in Ann Arbor to you and Astrid, with Don.
Lovely post. I really like your way with words.
here's to many happy days to come!! treasure those moments in time.
I'm with Ruth in thinking this deserves to be framed and hung in your home. It would serve as a special reminder of a special day for the two of you.
Yes, I agree - framed and hung in a special spot in your home. BTW, I have a cat named Serendipity - love that word. :) Salud, Ginnie and Astrid!!
Very serendipitous indeed :-)
I do think somebody steals time though...
Little did that we know when we walked on that sunny day in Gorinchem, it is so special to walk around with our cameras and capture things we see, we both do see so many different things.
For me time stood still when you said 'wacht' and started talking Dutch to me during the wedding ceremony.
All I saw was you.....erm....but that is normal I think.
To me Ruth did made a very good point, I think we should frame it....
Time, a strange thing, we have a lot of it and yet some always run out.
A wonderful post MLS.
heck yes, ginnie! i'd love to see your album...you are sounding deliriously happy...a great big yes to life and love!
Wonderful, just wonderful!
I have never managed to really read a sundial. But there is always time to learn :-) Serendipity it is and I have now learned a new word today!
Live a happy life with lots of love.
dear ginnie and astrid. i was sitting on the banks of the kafue river (western zambia, near the border with the congo) on your special day, and i raised a glass to the setting sun. i think you were just starting your day then, all the anticipation and excitement ahead of you. and as i write this, i'm raising another glass - a rose champagne, well..it is valentine's day of course..and hope you will do much the same today. lots of love :)
The sundials I love best are those I collect: lovely, coiled, symmetrical shells from the Gulf Coast beaches. They tell the same time as your sundial - time controlled by the movement of the heavens and the seasons of earth.
It's the best time in which to live. Clocks measure. Sundials murmur.
And perhaps those words will become the genesis of my wedding poem for you ;-)