Toast

Two years ago, Jake started a blog titled ‘The Seattle Life’. I don’t know if you’ve read his blog, but if you have, you might imagine it is less about Seattle, and would more appropriately be titled as: ‘Finally, Life with Kimberley, once again’. Indeed, his move to Seattle was a tremendous relief of tension from years of geographical separation.

During their first encounters, Jake would tell me stories about Kimberley. His telling carried a sense of helpless disbelief. Here was a girl so ideologically different from himself, and he cannot help but be drawn to her.

Yet, their connection is stronger than their differences, and it is a testament to both their characters that we are here today. Neither character is overpowered, theirs is a proud marriage of two strong individuals.

They have achieved an uncommon peace that is less about compromise, and more about developing their unique pathways of communication, of both emotions and ideas. Underlying this peace is a deep yearning to truly understand each other, to have their thoughts and joy become numerically one.

On this note, would you join me in wishing Jake, the love of my life, and Kimberley, the love of his life, their well-deserved happiness?