Tree of Life and Some Interesting Wedding Tidbits

Today, I was reading Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati in bed. Yes, I went back to bed after breakfast again...it is becoming a recurring luxury. I am almost on page 600, but there are 876 pages in the book. I just love it! I already ordered the next two books in the series from Amazon, and they are supposed to arrive this week, so I am trying to finish the first book, so that I can immediately continue the series. Anyways, while I was in bed reading, I got a package in the mail from Deborah Bridle who lives in Australia. I ordered a lovely Tree of Life necklace from her website called Unique Dichroic Glass Creations, and it arrived today. It was more beautiful than I had imagined. Well, it is going to be my signature piece, and I can well imagine myself ordering some more items for Deborah. Joe loves it. He said, "The pendant is dimensional, and there are beautiful lights and colours reflecting from the dichroic glass." I looked it up and dichroic glass dates back to the 4th century A.D. The Tree of Life is a many- branched tree that illustrates the idea of the interconnectedness of life I do love it so much! Check her site, and I think you will be as enamored with her works of art as I was. Thanks Deborah for designing such wonderful pieces of art, and I will cherish it forever!

PS: Some people emailed me and asked me about our wedding when they read yesterday's post and saw our wedding picture. We got married in Philadelphia, which is where I grew up. There was a funny story surrounding our wedding. We were trying to arrange the ceremony. You know how family can be...discussions arose as to how and where the ceremony should be, etc, etc. I was pretty frazzled by it all, and Joe asked me what I wanted to do. I said sort of jokingly that if it were up to me, I would elope, so guess what we did?...We eloped. We had our ceremony privately at a justice of peace with a huge sheep dog watching our ceremony, had a lovely dinner at a Chinese Restaurant by the Delaware River in Philadelphia, and then honeymooned in my favorite spot in the Pa. Dutch Country. We then had another symbolic ceremony for my family, and a third one for Joe's family in Dublin. We landed up having three ceremonies. What a hoot that was, and the rest was history. Two soulmates found each other to stay together forever. Anyways, thanks for all of the questions and for your kind comments about our wedding pic!