I took the picture of these two trees growing so close together, yet separate, several years ago and it still resonates with me. I remember it being two trees. But when I look at the picture I wonder if it was one tree at one point that maybe had a lightening strike down the middle! Not sure. And I wonder if those trees are still there.
The image always reminds me of marriage. Two separate individuals coming together to make a life together. A challenge to be sure. Intimacies of daily life with other humans. Togetherness, yet also attending to the self.
I feel like with this piece I have so much to say and nothing to say. So I’ll just let it speak for itself.
When I was trying to think of a title, other than “matrimony”, these words ran though my head: After all the hours, then days, then months, and then years, we looked back and saw that we made a life together.
It’s simplistic. But that is what it is.