A Marvelous Mess!!

Friends of ours got married this summer.

And, thanks to Maine for giving all people the right to marry another of the same sex.... the two friends of ours were both men. I could not have been more proud of them..... and of the people of our state for taking such a wonderful stance on gay marriage.

One that I hope will inspire all the other states to do the same. 

They specifically said "No presents", but I couldn't resist. 

On their invitation they had an image based off the animated drawings by Emily Hubley, made for the song The Origin of Love (which was written by Stephen Trask and about Plato's Symposium) for the movie version of the theatrical play Hedwig and the Angry Inch. *whew*

It looks like this:

Wikipedia tells me that Symposium has a speech in it from Aristophanes:

"According to the speech, long ago, humans were composed of two people stuck back-to-back, with two faces and eight limbs. Male-male humans came from the Sun, female-female humans from the Earth and male-female humans from the Moon. The gods, out of jealousy, split them in half. Now, throughout our lives, we are always trying to find our "other half", and sexual intercourse is the only means we have to put the two halves back together; this desire to be one person again is what we call "love". However, it is impossible to fully rejoin two people because it is our souls and not our bodies that most desire to be reunited."

I love the image (though I'm not a big fan of those petty greek gods). 

So, I made it out of wool and I'm going to put it in the mail for them tomorrow!

Here is mine:

Hopefully, for this moment anyway, they are not faithful followers of my blog. 

I doubt it, as they are both very busy men.

But, if for some reason, either one of you sees this post..... thank you so much for inviting me to your wedding. 

It was beautiful.

~

My fave from last week:

Copy McDonalds BBQ Chicken Wrap from Princess and Her Cowboys.

Now, on to the party!!!!

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