I walked out to the pond yesterday for some time to myself. I’d chosen a random meditation from my app to help me level-set the cacophony I was hearing in my head. When I got to the pond I walked to the end of the diving board and sat down. I didn’t feel like meditating.…
What follows are the wedding vows I wrote and read to Lara at our second ceremony in Healdsburg, California on October 27, 2022. We’d planned to do one on October 26th, but her pain got the best of her. I woke up and had this note on my nightstand as well as a text from…