41 Years Ago Today
Today, as I'm writing this, I'm remembering sitting around the pool at a lovely little motel just a mile or so from my parents' home with TBG and Daddooooo and Nannie and Grandpaw. Daddooooo looked at the leaves on the trees.... looked at them turning over, showing their undersides.... looked at them predicting the rain that would fall all night lonog.... looking and not saying anything. He didn't want to spoil my wedding day before the weather did. Of course, my sister and my mother woke me at 6am to inform me that it had been raining, that it was raining, that it looked like it would never stop raining, and what was I going to do? Go back to sleep came to mind. The drama was more important than the facts. What could I do? TBG called at 7, wondering if I were still going to show up, even in the rain. My oft repeated plan was to elope if the heavens opened, but that seemed like more trouble than it was worth, especially that early in the m...