Ari and I have been talking lately about getting new wedding rings. As a result, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to my current ring. The other day, I was stunned to discover that it’s pretty battered. It was embarrassing to think that I’d let it get that way, but then I realized it’s because I hardly ever take it off. I almost always wear this ring. All those dings and scrapes mark the days - good and bad - of the last eleven years: New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin; marriages, divorces, dramas, comedies; births, deaths; leaving home, making a new home; fighting, loving, surviving, flourishing; it’s all written there in the surface of this old ring. While I do like the idea of getting a new ring - something thicker and with a simple pattern on it perhaps - it’ll be very hard to retire this one. Picture here.
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November 19th, 2002, 12:10 pm · 10 Comments
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1 ari // Nov 19, 2002 at 2:34 pm
When we get our new rings, we will have to figure out a creative way to distress them enough & get them “up to speed.” What vacation would be fun and relaxing while still allowing us to get our rings a little dinged up?
2 michaelbrown // Nov 20, 2002 at 11:32 am
Perhaps the famous Knuckle Crunch Baths in Greece? Or - I know! - the Finger Saw Camp in Oregon! Excellent, that’ll put at least 10 years on them right there. Or maybe we could just leave them alone together for an afternoon to see if the old rings can whip some good old-fashioned common sense into the new rings?
3 ari // Nov 20, 2002 at 3:03 pm
two words: roller derby.
4 michaelbrown // Nov 20, 2002 at 3:21 pm
Score! I am so lucky that I married you.
5 Ed // Nov 20, 2002 at 8:21 pm
Here I was prepared to add a mirthful moment to what I presumed to be the pleasant din of an Oddfellow audience, one that appreciated Balzacian paeans to bygone times in lieu of the wonted anniversary. And it turns out that it’s just husband and wife skedaddling about! Regardless…aw, how sweet!
6 michaelbrown // Nov 21, 2002 at 11:32 am
Would it help if I said that we at least enjoy crooning mirthful paeans to a Balzacian audience in a pleasant den? Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?
7 ari // Nov 21, 2002 at 12:29 pm
1.5 words: esoterotica.
8 Ed // Nov 21, 2002 at 3:46 pm
Forgive me, Michael. I have no computer and I must write. Croons, however, are always hotcakes, regardless of quarter size.
9 james // Nov 21, 2002 at 6:22 pm
This is so incredibly romantic, you two. Don’t replace them! I’ve just started noticing how I bump my new ring on all sorts of stuff. At first, I was being so careful, but you can’t live life carefully and really live, so now I’m accumulating little scratches. The scars of life and love!!
10 ari // Nov 22, 2002 at 1:55 am
My dainty engagement ring is a family heirloom, actually, so eventually I must make it available to whichever son asks for it first. Tradition and all that, you know.
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