Past, present, and future

Today I got an email from one of my best friends from college, Ms. Cristina Cruz:

Brooke and I have already discussed things and we've decided that regardless of when and where your "wedding-wedding" is we are showing up wearing the ugliest purple taffeta dresses with hoop skirts and matching hats we can find. Then we are proceeding down the aisle regardless of how inappropriate it may be as your honorary brides maids. I think sashes may be necessary to designate our roles.

I laughed and then cried and then joined facebook. I missed Sewanee so much today, it hurt. But then a miracle happened and all these people showed up: out of my past and right into my present...and there's been a series of emails and notes and I-miss-you's and I-will-see-you's that I am going to bed with an updated wedding guest list and happy smile on my face.

Plus, call me superficial, but hearing your old friends say your husband is gorgeous must be one of the best things in life, I swear.