Stones Into the Ocean and Other Monday Musings

Doug & Ramya's special wedding at the beach on St. Simons.  It was perfect weather, a beautiful day, and a very sweet and memorable ceremony.

Benjamin is able to take advantage of his dance skills learned at Cotillion by dancing with a very special young lady at the wedding reception.

What a beautiful weekend!  I now have a married son, with a beautiful daughter-in-law.  Both ceremonies, the one at the Hindu temple in Atlanta, and the one at the beach at St. Simons, were very special and meaningful.  I'm not sure any other couple will have as many great  memories to cherish.  There were moments of stress, to be sure, but they were quickly set aside and replaced with the overwhelming joy everyone was experiencing.

On the beach, everyone was given a stone at the start of the ceremony.  Then, after the vows were read, all the guests went down to the edge of the ocean and together threw their stone into the waters.  It symbolized the letting go of the old and the beginning of the new.  It was an awe-inspiring sight to behold.  so awe-inspiring that I forgot to take any pictures.  But when I see them from others, I will post them here.

I had to take my foot off Young Robin Hood for a bit during the wedding, but now that that is over, I have it back down again.  My co-director, Karissa Cook, has done an excellent job of keeping things moving forward, but now we have to dedicate the next week to making this the best show we can.  So for any cast members who have read to this point in the post, I have a special message:  DON'T MISS PRACTICES and LEARN YOUR LINES!!!

Our plans to move are continuing forward.  Our house is sold, and we have purchased a new one.  Unfortunately, the new one will need three to six months of work, and we will have nowhere to live in the meantime,  So somehow, we have to solve that problem in the next few weeks.

The election is almost finally past us, and what an unpleasant election season it has been.  My long standing prediction has been that the President wins by the same margin or greater than he did against McCain, the Democrats hold the Senate, and make gains in the House but do not take control of it.  

It looks like the Presidential race may be closer than I expected.  The margin in the South is higher for Romney than the margin for Obama in other sections in the country, so the election may appear to be closer than it actually is.  I still believe firmly that Obama will win fairly decisively in the electoral college and more narrowly in the popular vote.  And just like in 2010, on the Senate level, most of the tea party whackjobs should go down to defeat.  When all is said and done, though, there will probably still be 40 plus Republican Senators who are willing to use the filibuster to stop any progressive agenda.  Oh, well.  Can't have everything, I guess.

But now I can have a married son and a beautiful daughter-in-law!  Yay!