Happy Frickin' New Year

It's been a challenging ten days. ART & SOUL's computer became infected w/ a virus. SERIOUSLY infected. By a new virus called 2010 Internet Security. How's that for a brilliant virus name? Computer guy saved the day by saving all our files. God bless him. Truly. He deserves a bottle of Patron and more.

I missed saying good bye to 2009 with you. And most of all I missed wishing you a Happy New Year.

So here it is now.

Belated, but not a fraction less sincere.

It's not a good thing that we have become so dependent on our technology. It keeps us so busy, so tied to something that does not give us back life.

And thank God, technology will never, ever, ever replace love.

Congratulations to all the happy couples who became engaged over the holiday season. While you're feeling overwhelmed as you begin the wedding planning process... please remember this: be kind to each other, lift each other up, compromise on the things that aren't that important. Enjoy your companionship and be thankful that you have found each other.

I'll close my New Year Wishes and congratulations with words from a Hawaiian Song I found in a wedding anthology:

Here all seeking is over,
the lost has been found,
a mate has been found
to share the chills of winter---
now Love asks
that you be united.
Here is a place to rest,
a place to sleep,
a place in heaven.
Now two are becoming one,
the black night is scattered,
the eastern sky grows bright.
At last the great day has come!

HAWAIIAN SONG from the translation of E.S. Craighill Handy and Mary Kawena Pukui (adapted by Jane Hirshfield) Published in "Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology" 

Blessings to you all and may 2010 be everything you hope for and more.
With love and in deep gratitude for each bride and groom who have given us the privilege of assisting you with your weddings,

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