My dinosaur

I'm not being rude - you'll have to skip to the bottom to read why he is my dinosaur!

I've been pondering on weddings today. Not just weddings, but the whole kit and caboodle. What it means to really love someone and the unspeakable value of being with someone who trusts you, loves you and wants to be with you, unconditionally.

It's my friend Jenny's wedding tomorrow. She is full of excitement and I know that she and Andreware very very happy together. It is apparent from how they are with each other, and how much Jenny speaks of him. I know that photographing them and the guests tomorrow will be a lot of fun and I am pretty confident that their personalities and sense of fun will shine through.

So pondering on getting ready, getting all the gear together, formatting cards, charging batteries and finalising the plan, I also found myself thinking about marriage in general and in relation to me. It has sent me on a path of random thoughts all day. My failure and the consequences of it (although, to be fair, something else triggered that piece of writing).

More importantly, the path that my failure took me down, which ultimately has given me the two most precious people in my life.

Today, I went out with my lovely man for lunch. It was a rare treat to sit quietly, in each other's company during lunchtime on a weekday. It was nice. He made me laugh, we discussed the plan for the wedding tomorrow and we just existed, quietly, together.

Why is he my dinosaur? At our wedding last year, my brother did a reading for us. Corin didn't know it was coming - this is what it was

A Lovely Love Story
~ by Edward Monkton ~

The fierce Dinosaur was trapped inside his cage of ice. Although it was cold he was happy in there. It was, after all, HIS cage.

Then along came the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

The Lovely Other Dinosaur melted the Dinosaur's cage with kind words and loving thoughts.

I like this Dinosaur, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur. Although he is fierce he is also tender and he is funny. He is also quite clever though I will not tell him this for now.

I like this Lovely Other Dinosaur, thought the Dinosaur. She is beautiful and she is different and she smells so nice. She is also a free spirit which is a quality I much admire in a dinosaur.

But he can be so distant and so peculiar at times, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.

He is also overly fond of Things. Are all Dinosaurs so overly fond of Things?

But her mind skips from here to there so quickly, thought the Dinosaur. She is also uncommonly keen on Shopping. Are all Lovely Other Dinosaurs so uncommonly keen on shopping?

I will forgive his peculiarity and his concern for Things, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur. For they are part of what makes him a richly charactered individual.

I will forgive her skipping mind and her fondness for shopping, thought the Dinosaur. For she fills our life with beautiful thought and wonderful surprises. Besides, I am not unkeen on shopping either.

Now the Dinosaur and the Lovely Other Dinosaur are old. Look at them.

Together they stand on the hill telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs.

And that, my friends, is how it is with love. Let us all be Dinosaurs and Lovely Other Dinosaurs together.

For the sun is warm. And the world is a beautiful place.

He takes me for who I am, listens to my problems, advises but never tells me what to do and always, always does the right thing by me. So, marriage, YES, it's wonderful and I hope that Jenny and Andrew have found in each other the same happiness that Corin and I have with each other.

Good luck guys :-)