Today marks four years of marriage to a woman I’d have walked across a desert to marry. All I had to do was cross the Atlantic… and overcome cultural divides, lockdowns, and pathological levels of bureaucracy. She is worth it a thousand times over.

Thank you, nostr:npub19pj6f0nc9q6xr26qe3g8m6xe3hwe0d6p6zcvf57cm3kayghjdj0slnlenu, for the light and the joy you bring to my life and our son’s, and—most of all—for who you show yourself to be in *every* moment.

My point in sharing this with you, gentle reader? Be brave. Pick up the phone, knock on the door, board the flight. Fight for it. If you find the one who calls to you, do what you must. You’ll never know what unspeakable beauty awaits until you do.