Wildfire, what a treat to have such a lovely long post (two even!) from you. Re: yesterday -- I really feel like sometimes the stars are just lined up funny and many of us have bad days all at the same time. I don't think I worked hard enough to overcome my obstacles yesterday, though. Could feel myself sliding into depression, but I won't let it get me Today is a whole other day, right?
Thanks for the explanation of handfasting, too. I FINALLY "got it" about an hour after I read your post -- handfasting, like joining two hands, right? Before the explanation, I was thinking -- well, what could that mean? Only eating foods you can eat from your hand, like finger foods. O i am dense, sometimes
AND thanks a million for the story of your Irishman! I think in some alternate universe you and he are together. That's my concept of reality, now, that all possibilities are played out in a multiplicity of alternate universes. And i find it oddly comforting when things don't go the way I want them too, or life seems unfair. I think, well, in some alternate universe my life is different. I just have to deal with how it is in this one! Oh, the husbands I have (in those universes where I'm married -- also like not being married in some of them).
Pls. don't all think I'm totally mad!
I do have to work today because there are editorial-type things to be done for tomorrow. Love again and always!