We’re about to push off for Plymouth. Like the Pilgrims of yore, we’ll have a minivan full of beach games, towels, and our beach wedding best on some hangers. It’s an early summer wedding, of my older brother.
I grew up following him around: from gymnastics to surfing (both short-lived for me) to summer camp to skiing (life-long pursuits), his were fun footsteps to follow.
About 15 years ago our paths diverged slightly: he began a career and I moved to the DC area for college. During those years we gathered for great adventures like skiing in the Rockies and great sorrows like watching our mother slowly die.
Recently, his and my paths moved a bit closer. We moved to within 25 miles of each other in Massachusetts, we manage a ski weekends or summer afternoons, and we’ve seen more than our fair share of New England sports events. (It’s not bad to live in title-town, USA.)
This weekend our paths converge again, this time as he gets married. It seems like I’m ahead of him in the family way: my oldest two children will be ring bearing and flower girling. It has been fun to see my older brother turn into a boyfriend and fiance as he approaches age 40. Nothing like a marriage for a midlife crisis!
I hope to make it through some of the sentiments above in the form of a toast. We’ll see how that goes.
After some thematic reading in previous weeks, we’re back to the usual mix of links for this go-round: I’ve found a link each under the news, tech, and simplicity headings. Enjoy the reading.