Love Story

24th June, 2009 2 Comments

Today has been trolling along and I didn’t think I would have a post to include.  Plus, I wanted to make sure plenty of people saw Marcelo’s Dune post.

So it sort of surprised me to run across a blog entry that I really wanted to share.  I’ve been following Danger Dameby Veronica Varlow for about a month now after a relative sent me the link to an article because they knew I liked burlesque.

Today she posted a open letter expressing her love for her husband on their third anniversary.  It’s beautifully written and reminds me that not all stories are the ones we find on the shelves of Barnes & Noble.  Each of us has a million personal stories, some of which stand out in our minds more than others, and each of those stories is affected by what we have learned from our past stories and interactions with others.  These stories are often more powerful, and definitely more meaningful, than the cut and paste formulas of romance novels.

Varlow writes that she gave her husband the wedding gift of a journal/scrapbook that she kept throughout their early relationship memorializing shortly after they first met:

On the first page, dated two days after I first laid eyes on you, I wrote that the book would one day be your wedding present.  Over the years, I carefully chronicled the early days of our love story so it would never be forgotten.  The book held my predictions scrawled in many different inks.  It held ticket stubs and roadside maps, rose petals and Chinese fortunes, candle wax and glitter.  Three years ago today, I was able to finally give you the worn green velvet journal, filled with the beginning of the story of us.

She goes on to describe her husband as a storyteller.  The most beautiful thing though is that their story is not done and Varlow recognizes that their love has so much more to grow as their story unfolds.  In a way this reminds me of Max Berry’s serialized Machine Man (previously mentioned).  Each day a new page with vague notions and hopes  for the next.  Stories come alive, not because we plan and plot out every detail to come, but because they develop in the moment with a need to be told before being set permanently on the page.

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