(This is actually a
picture the day before the wedding - I got this wedding dress at a thrift store for 69
dollars. Joseph was kind enough to pay for it. I painted the dress blue and green and
purple so that each layer was a different color. Then,on the back of the bridal train, I
painted gold and silver fish swimming up a waterfall. I wanted to be like a haiku that
day, a haiku of a woman getting married in a tree with a waterfall flowing down her back.
I chose a tree because the Mayans felt that when
the last tree dies the last human will die. (How could a human being live in a world
without trees?) I also chose a tree because when I was growing up I spent as much time as
I could in trees because I love the way they smell and feel and that THEY ARE.
| The reason that I chose this tree was because over a year
before I had climbed up in this very tree and cried so I felt like getting married in the
tree was the right thing to do since I shared such sorrow with this tree that I should
share such joy as well. Also, a tree seemed like a very spiritual place to be. It happened
to be a Mulberry Tree, which I thought added an interesting mythological element as well.
As I sat in the tree I could not for the life of me remember the measure of a haiku. I was
remembering something about fives and seven and eights but I could not remember exactly
how it went so I did not complete the poem that I wanted to write on my wedding day. I
still intend to write a haiku about it though. Perhaps time will add a measure of its
own.) |
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-V. Vaughn-Perling, Hollywood,
1997 |
1996 Valentine's Day Cyberbride