Sigh...

Todd & Aliya's beautiful wedding took place yesterday. A wonderful event, two of my dearest friends finding their soulmate in each other. I really was honoured to be there and to be able to share the day with all our friends.

Am much too tired and too maudlin to write more, I'll post other photos later. But right now, I'll leave you with this gorgeous photo of the two of them and one of my favourite Pablo Neruda poems(*mental note* MUST get copy of book of Neruda's Love Sonnets):


I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep