A Rare Example of Seeing the Light.

I was watching a YouTube video earlier and the pictures included a young bride clad in full white wedding gear, and you know what? I felt moved to the point of almost (almost!) becoming tearful. Why, why why..?

(Arghhhhhhhh!)

I’ve never in all my life found there to be anything meaningful, much less moving, in the white wedding carry-on. It always seemed theatrical, outdated, and downright silly. Yet here I am suddenly sensing something of both magnitude and profundity about it.

I suppose it’s all about gaining a growing perception of the significance of archetypes, in this case the girl’s transition from maiden to queen. That now seems to me to be a matter of great significance, where at one time it meant nothing at all. And yet I do think I know where this new awareness started.

It started in May 2017 when the Lady B sent me a picture of her wedding in which she was enveloped in the full frilly whiteness of a traditional wedding. My first reaction was to feel devastated that she had left my orbit forever, and I continued to feel devastated for the rest of the night and most of the following day. But then something in my attitude shifted from dark to light, and here I now am. That was one of life’s better experiences.

(And while I’m on the subject of the Lady B – which is a rare occurrence these days – I might also mention that I saw here wearing dungarees one day last summer, and my word don’t they suit her just wonderfully. Unlike most farmers, farmer’s wives, tradesmen, and others who wear them for practical purposes, she has the form and bearing to endow them with the look of high, yet wholly unpretentious, fashion. I’m hoping to live long enough to have the chance to tell her, but I expect somebody else has already done so.)