Dear Gorgeous Friends,
The next pop-up salon is Thursday and YOU’RE INVITED!
On the topical menu: “What Is a Marriage?”
We have some creative, deep thinkers and fun spritely personalities joining us. It’s 12 - 1 pm PDT, on Zoom and we’d love to have you! This is for everyone—married, unmarried, solo-ists, thinking about it, opposed to it. The whole notion of Marriage permeates our society and culture. Let’s discuss. Let’s redefine!
This is for anyone curious about what it means for two people to come together and share a life, create a life—attending to the individual and the relationship.
Do we need to blow up this popsicle stand? Can we? There are many ways to live—how can we plop that notion into a shared relationship?
Years ago, I heard Joseph Campbell, in an interview with Bill Moyers, talk about The Relationship as the Third Entity; according to mythology, it was the couple’s duty to worship (attend to) this third entity, the Relationship. I found that really fascinating. And freeing! It’s not about ME, or even us, but . . . a shared . . . thingamajig. Do I do it, now that I’m married? Hmmm….
Read on for more details; watch the video for a brief description, AND to hear one of my favorite poems about marriage.
Today’s Let Me Read to You poem
“The Country of Marriage,” by Wendell Berry. It’s one of my favorite poems about marriage—honesty, throbbing, ominous, joyful. Berry is a master at capturing the strangeness and wonder of life.
Register for Thursday’s pop-up salon. We want you!
❤️🔥WHAT IS A “MARRIAGE”?
Thursday, April 13, 12 - 1 pm PDT
Register here, on Zoom.
Why do we partner up, and/or seek to marry? Why did you? Why didn’t you?
How might a partnership change if we defined “marriage” using the second dictionary definition? “a combination or mixture of two or more elements”?
This conversation is for all—the married, unmarried, in-between—anyone curious to talk about the In Real Life experience of being committed to another person and how it stacks up with out imaginings of what it would be.
I spent decades solo before marrying. For years I was more committed to my visions/expectations of My Marriage vs the One I Was Really Having.
WTF!
Maybe you have other ideas to throw in the pot. Please do! Let’s rip open this heart-shaped topic, shed a bit of blood (or not). Got carried away with metaphors.
Register here. Free to BH subscribers.
The Country of Marriage: Let Me Read to You