because motives matter
This year Katie's birthday post includes a surprise gathering, a long marriage, and a poem about boundary stones and covenant love. Sometimes a birthday is less about getting older and more about noticing the ground you’ve been given to stand on.
Let my grateful heart esteem you, my companion, faithful friend;
It's my life story, sort of. And you are welcome to correct errors of fact.
Travel does not just make me grateful for the many privileges I have at home, but for the richness of creation and the hospitality of strangers.
I’m grateful to travel with her, and to celebrate her clicking off one more decade.
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