The Last First Dance

 

The Last First Dance, 2004.

Seventeen years is but the beginning...

Someone I respect a lot once told me that you had to build the foundation of your relationship rock solid to support the frame of it when things go wrong. Because they will and that foundation will keep you safe and together through any storm. 

That's what we've done.

Damned if we aren't still standing, a little beaten and bent but finding the light and moving toward a future we hoped for all those years ago on this date. It isn't always simple and love isn't the only thing you need to make it this far in life with another human by your side. Compassion, understanding the foibles and traumas of what was and what can be, forgiveness, passion and dedication to the promises made but sometimes forgotten. Life is dirty, often unfair and we keep going because there has always been a hand to lift the one who's fallen down back up again. It's leaning on each other when the winds blow and the night is dark. It's laughter and inside jokes and joy when things go well. It's  memories made and kept ferociously close to your heart because they've become part of who you are to your core. 

That Last First Dance was the culmination of the bedrock layer of this life we call ours, but we've never stopped building it because in love there is strength and our love sustains me through every thing I do.

Love you Kat.

Someday we will talk about that ice swan though...hehe