Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Some say it's all in who you know, but I've always said, it's who. knows. YOU. This is especially true in the story of my most recent Bride and friend, Nilda. We met years ago at the Happiest Place on Earth itself, Disney World in Orlando when she, yes she, was one of my managers working at the Magic Kingdom. Some time apart never kept us away, and we reconnected through Facebook just weeks before I had decided to make my move to the Big Apple. A full year later, and her big day is now a Destination Wedding for the books; one that marks the beginning of this fall's long-awaited season of "I Do's!" Her Autumn ensemble of colors and memory-making lead you to her theme of ...
In a word - WOW - most effectively unifies mostly everything that has happened since my last Blog Post, and alas, I write to you now from the greatest city in the world, New York. I have always seen myself as a New Yorker. The time never seemed right. Though the move was a long time coming (years in fact), within only 3 week's time, I made an instinctive promise to myself, left a six year career at Disney, uprooted myself from friends, family, life and culture, shipped four 50+ lb boxes cross country, and sold my car within 19 hours of a one-way flight - all for the sake of waking from a dream and deciding to finally live this daily thing we often call, life. "Bold" some may call it. ...