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25th wedding anniversary
November 2009 
Why do you celebrate?
Posted on Apr 26th, 2008
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Meenakshi
Meenakshi
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 24, 2008:
This month is one of many celebrations - our wedding anniversary [25th this year], my birthday [52nd!] ..Just ealized that the two numbers are mirror images! Wow --numerlogists, please help with the meanings!
I am celebrating both.
The short version: celebration helps me to thank all those who have brought my life to where it is. And it always fills me with bliss to think how many there are!
The long version:
~~I called up to thank my aunt and cousins who helped in organizing my wedding. They did not even remember what they had done!
~~I wanted to make a movie of the 25 years together of my husband and me. We actually have known each other for 29 years; and I began to gather pics that had BOTH of us in each frame and ONLY US! Very soon I realized that our life together has NOT been influenced only by each other. Our family, friends, children, the places we've lived in:all have contributed to our celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. So I began scanning those pics in.
The movie was shown as "my speech" after the toasts at the party, in which friends from many places in the world [that's Miami for you!] helped in setting up; and then gathered outdoors, by the light of the waxing moon, for an evening of pictures, eating Indian food [all vegetarian!], teaching us their different country dances, playing an Indian wedding game [fish for the ring] and so on.
The ending titles of the movie said;
Home spans the world--Friends become family. And then:
Celebrating 25 years of marriage : wow!
Living with family - a blessing
Celebrating with friends and family - enriching
Blessings of our elders --priceless!
And that is why I celebrate.
Now for my 52nd birthday!
I am celebrating both.
The short version: celebration helps me to thank all those who have brought my life to where it is. And it always fills me with bliss to think how many there are!
The long version:
~~I called up to thank my aunt and cousins who helped in organizing my wedding. They did not even remember what they had done!
~~I wanted to make a movie of the 25 years together of my husband and me. We actually have known each other for 29 years; and I began to gather pics that had BOTH of us in each frame and ONLY US! Very soon I realized that our life together has NOT been influenced only by each other. Our family, friends, children, the places we've lived in:all have contributed to our celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. So I began scanning those pics in.
The movie was shown as "my speech" after the toasts at the party, in which friends from many places in the world [that's Miami for you!] helped in setting up; and then gathered outdoors, by the light of the waxing moon, for an evening of pictures, eating Indian food [all vegetarian!], teaching us their different country dances, playing an Indian wedding game [fish for the ring] and so on.
The ending titles of the movie said;
Home spans the world--Friends become family. And then:
Celebrating 25 years of marriage : wow!
Living with family - a blessing
Celebrating with friends and family - enriching
Blessings of our elders --priceless!
And that is why I celebrate.
Now for my 52nd birthday!
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congratulations and happy birthday!!
25 years!!! congratulations!! so wonderful!!
tell us more of how those years have been. tell us some love stories please!!
and you!! happy birthday!! I want to hear some life stories too!
hurray for celebrations and gratitude and love!
xo
-d
Thank you FenixRising and Dawn! Funnily, I wonder if my buying the 25th anniversary stuff from Party City made them rethink keeping this line! They had a space for all this; and would remark “wow! 25 years together!” each time i bought something. Then after the party, when I was returning stuff I didn't use; they said they have stopped carrying things for teh 25th anniversary as very few people buy them. Ah well I was lucky they had em when I needed them!
And love story….mmm…well, we were students together, and I still remember the day I met him. I was wondering where a lecture hall is; and here comes this bright looking, smartly dressed good looker, saying: “I'll show you!”
Didn't know then, that I'd follow him halfway around the world!
Congratulations to your 25th (mine is next year) and many happy returns of your special day!
More blessings coming your way! Wish I could watch your movie.
It sounds like you both have lived such a rich full life together. You have lived in so many places and met so many people. I like what you said about the way our lives are interwoven with so many others. That the snapshots include so many other precious others that have influenced. It reminds me how we think we're just one single person, but we're really perhaps a connected field with every single person we've ever met and shared and loved. (and even those we haven't yet met….) So perhaps the anniversary celebration is really for all of us!
This was a wonderful way to celebrate Meenakshi! Wish I could have been there to merely observe! Can you scan it onto you tube or something and share with us..? LOL
Just sounds so wonderful!
As to your upcoming celebration…congrats! We are just about 9 months ahead of you…and can confirm 52 is a great age to be! ENJOY!
And I love the 25/52 thing…! both 7…spiritual numbers.
love you,
A
PS and how do your zaadz/gaia friends influence you??? A whole other world of friends….!
Timeless blessings to you.
7 is the vibration of the science and spirituality and the melding of the two. It is a vibe of movement and quietude….needing both…in the tarot, it is the chariot… a year of change with unexpected positive movement. So if you are contemplating change home..career…whatever, great year to do so…you'll have an extra alignment boost…tee hee.
Must go…Love u Meenakshi
Kimberly
Dear Meenakshi, Congratulations on your 25th wedding anniversary and Happy Birthday! Thank you for sharing both blessed events and may the next years bring joy, ease and continued contributions that touch the hearts of the people who come in contact with you. I appreciate being a part of your network and look forward to continued learning from the light that shines from your beautiful spirit. Warmly, Susan
Ah dear friends, thank you for your blessings. I feel enveloped in their warmth.
Aley- you're right. I do need to tell my friends what I value about them. I keep thinking about it, and will get around to it when the feelings become word. It's happening!
Kim, would there be this change even if I am NOT seeking it? I am not aware of seeking it; but who knows what that inner guide has decided?
Mila, Aley- I think the movie is too long [20 minutes] and personal for YouTube. But maybe one day you will drop by my home and have a look? With a cup of ginger-basil-clove tea.
Happy Banniversary ;-) this needs a word of it's own.
Meenakshi 52/25 let the celebration never end.
Wishing you both an especially happy day together, and many many more. Hugs.
You are truly blessed to be celebrating your 25th year in such a powerful union.
Your happiness sits inside your smile and smiles at me
Her smile brightens my heart
My smile forms
In turn
My happiness sits inside my smile and my smile smiles at those around me!
Your gift keeps giving.
THe Best to you and yours-Aaliyah
it's a work of love. Congratualtions.
happy birthday and 25 years. what a wonderful blessing. keep being happy.
i love that love story beginning! and your whole life has been the rest! lovely!
Yeah, I adore hearing how people met, when relationships have spanned years. To me it gives each present moment added intriguingness (new word) and significance. Sometimes I wonder: What's starting now, in this seemingly insignificant moment or encounter??
I echo all the wishes above, my favorite being: May the celebrations (of your marriage and your own life) never end !!!!
Sure glad you decided to be born, so you could end up in my life and so many others here who treasure you !!
Hugs, OM Bastet
OM! Now YOU've made me teary. And as I'm smiling inside through all these heart-warming words; I can sense portals to explore in each of the messages above….that is definitely something to live for, and to celebrate!
What a luminous journey you walk with your Beloved one, Meenakshi.
By honoring your connection with your significant one here on gaia, you are honoring all of us. Thank You. May you and your love continue to surrender and grow in a bountiful love and a great joy for each other. May the road ahead be filled with a gracious peace and generous light.
Happy Birthday!
with loving light, I bow
tess
Your offer of sharing your life and love's movie over a cup of ginger-basil-clove tea is surely tempting. Aley and I might just take you up on it, just give us a year or two - LOL! Are you listening, Aley dear!
Any time, Mila! And what warm words, Tess! I'm feeling so spoiled at having brought all these beautiful wishes to my door!
And yes, I know, blessed beyond words.
Enjoy your tea and good wishes! Yes, Meenakshi, you can expect change even if this is not your intent…but if you do desire change…the energies will support you more so than in other years…or so “they” say. Whatever comes through for you may if be filled with enormous light and love as you share that with us here. Namaste.
Kim, I thought of this as I changed the Z-Network's name today; deciding on it overnight, and with the help of the awesome mods –OM who came up with the name, and Amber who smilingly agreed, –changed it to Gaia Networking.
I have to say that I'd have resisted it if I hadn't read what you wrote. AND, the team is helping to support our effort, so that's great.
BUT I realize the apprehension that comes with a thought of change; specially when we feel all is well in our life. What a lesson! Thank you so much for coming back and answering my question.
Oh, Meenakshi, happy anniversary of you and your relationship!
Thanks tinkonthebrink!
Kathy started a lovely thread in her Dreams of Artists pod; on how marriage is like an art form.
Cross-posting from there:
Kathy, what a lovely way to put it! And I have to laugh because when we decided to marry, my to-be-husband [we'd been good friends before that] [ok, after that, too!]; said:”You're a rough diamond. I'm going to poilsh you.”
I laughed at that internally; because I took it superficially. He was less “sophisiticated” than I was. But of course, it was something he must've been guided to say. And I should've realized that a diamond cutting another HURTS!
Somehow through those first years, what you call a postulate, is what worked for us. Even before we married, my wise one said–“In our marriage, there'll be times we'll love each other and times we hate each other; but we've to decide that we'll never get divorced.” And that we'll keep communicating and working things out.
And we have. And did. And do. 25 years on….
Through 1 year of friendship; 4 years being engaged. 7 years being married without kids. And the rest with the most wonderful kids in the [my] world. .
There is need of constant balancing. Thank you so much for this perspective, Kathy and friends.
happy birthday and congratulations, dear Meenakshi….
many blessings to you and your dear ones,
CG
Happiness to me is like the bliss of overcoming obstacles toward known goals and lots of practice makes for success. I wish you all the happiness and joy you bring to us. The culture of Gaia is completely elevated through your aesthetics you bring to us and I am grateful to have found you as a friend.
Love to you and your dear ones,Kathy
C.G, ~KES, thank you for the light you bring to my life.