Our 50th Wedding Anniversary

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My husband and I will be celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary this weekend and next week! We were married in 1971 in a park in Berkeley, California. I was a 70's flower child, and chose to wear a purple dress and flowers in my hair. My husband was an ambitious young stockbroker. Some of our guests did not believe our marriage would last and were betting we would not stay together. Guess we proved them wrong. We had no wedding vows and made no promises. We had poetry read, drank wine from a crystal glass which we broke, exchanged rings, and ended with the Apache Indian blessing. Just the kind of wedding we wanted. The ceremony was on a bluff, overlooking San Francisco Bay. At the end of the ceremony, two men popped up over the edge of the bluff. They had been practicing rappelling and, when they reached the top of the bluff and heard our ceremony going on, they hung there until our ceremony was over. We invited them to join us for some champagne, lunch, and wedding cake. They fit right in! Over the decades we have traveled together to every state in the U.S., nearly every state of Mexico, most of the Provinces of Canada, as well as Jamaica, the Bahamas, Great Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland. If we've been anywhere else, it has slipped my mind ... which happens a little more these days. We raised four daughters and have eight grandchildren. It's been a grand life! Now, as many of you know, my husband is in very poor health and we see our years together waning, but we are so glad we made it to our 50th. We're spending the next few days at a lovely hotel in Laguna Beach, only five miles from where we live. We intend to relax, look at the ocean, breathe the fresh air, act like beach bums, and enjoy some wonderful meals. If you don't see me here on MyLot for a while, you'll know where I am! The Apache Wedding Blessing Now you will feel no rain. for each of you will be shelter to the other; Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other; Now there is no more loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other; Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place to enter in the days of your togetherness, And may your days be good and long upon the earth.