Posted on 04/15/2015 12:43:20 PM PDT by mojito
It has been some time since I gave thought to the day my soon-to-be husband and I bought our wedding rings. But the spectacle over RFRA—all the panting hysteria of a predatory media and toadying politicians aided by timorous clergy—brings it back with great clarity. And even greater poignancy.
Our wedding date was set. It was time to pick a ring. But where to look for one? How to shop? The two of us were young, broke, and scrappy. It would be some years yet before we could afford to pay retail. Besides, my intended was a combative shopper, born to hondel. He did not believe in fixed prices. There were only asking prices begging to be negotiated.
We started in Manhattan’s diamond district in the west Forties. No diamonds were on our shopping list. But 47th Street was a place to haggle, draw swords, dicker away until the doomed asking price dropped in exhaustion. His ring was easy. A plain gold band was all. It was mine that took hunting for. I wanted something chaste and spare, low keyed but rich with symbolism. No glitz. Modest but not severe. It had to be unembellished but eloquent—a sort of Grail for my ring finger.
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Superb!! Thanks for posting.
Very well written.
Excellent.
I am so wary of the left’s subversion of our language and our culture that I almost didn’t click the link, but I’m glad that I did.
Uncommon common sense in an increasingly nonsensical world.
Thanks.
Yes, very nice. Encourage all to read the full thing.
I’m with this writer: if we don’t stand strong for what’s right now, we’ll never have the chance again.
I am disappointed that our Bishops have declined to resist this evil, but I sorry to say that I’m not surprised. They never excommunicated one politician for openly supporting and facilitating the murder of children, they resisted crushing the child abuse scandal and prosecuting the abusers when it was first exposed, they have aided and abetted the invasion of our country and its Balkanization - so what’s new?
Bump.
Outstanding article.
” Read the whole thing. “
Thanks for the nudge. Worth it!
Hate chime in...but read the whole thing. It’s beautifully written.
Thank you for posting it.
Yes it was.
That couple will last the test of time.
bttt
Great read!!!
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