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Thinking

To grow accustomed to this face

by harvestbird10 October 2009
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With a long-sighted father and a short-sighted mother, it was more likely than not that my brother and I would need glasses one day.  For both of us, that day came before childhood was out.  With great determination, I switched to contact lenses at fourteen, rejecting that large-lensed, plastic-framed spectacles that were the style at [...]

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The looming bride

by harvestbird8 October 2009
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Our wedding was one of several coming events observed today at a morning tea at my workplace, along with the comings and goings — including one other wedding — of my colleagues.  We were sweetly presented with outsize bunches of flowers and there were kind words and extensive catering.
My colleagues remarked on my equilibrium, two [...]

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Phrasing it

by harvestbird30 September 2009
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Every wedding is a gamble of a kind, against time, health and circumstances unforeseen or unknown.  Finding ways through this  – to declare sincerely a commitment, yet not appear overconfident in the face of fortune — requires consideration.  This is not without its own challenges when, as a friend of Megan puts it, one operates [...]

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Giving orders, finding fabrics

by harvestbird7 June 2009
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Small bouts of organising have become much easier since I stopped consulting and started giving cold, dictatorial orders.  This of course is what a number of post-wedding friends and acquaintances told me when I first began a-plannin’, but I presumed to think I would be different: ideas politely solicited would fuel my creative thinking.  In [...]

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Metaphysical Cheeses

by harvestbird7 June 2009
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The recent proliferation of wedding-cheese-themed conversation on Twitter led one of my erudite conversationalists to make this suggestion:
@harvestbird This image [above] by Dick Frizzell may be worth considering for your wedding invitation: http://is.gd/E90J
One cannot deny its contemplative power.

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Yosegi is for lovers

by harvestbird17 May 2009
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A wedding, said Ned in a moment of rue, leads to the acquiring of more objects which one has to take care not to break.
He was speaking not of wedding presents but of the adornments that accrue in the lead-up to the ceremony, not least of which are the rings.  Those who might put their [...]

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The post-ironic wedding planner

by harvestbird5 April 2009
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I am learning–far too late, it would seem–that wedding planning and irony don’t mix. Those bridal magazines that I used to browse with a laugh and a sneer while waiting for my kebab or my curry at the local takeaways I now read, in the same setting, for real, measuring my plans against the [...]

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