Today was the wedding. John Michels married his Holly at John Michael Kohler Art Center. It was intended to be an outdoor wedding but due to rain it was brought inside the center. It was a lovely ceremony. John and Holly had a four piece string quartet playing and a trumpet for then entrance song. Dick was able to come to the ceremony. We decided that he should opt out of the dinner and reception because it would have been too much for him. As it was he was getting a little, as he said, wobbly at the Art Center.

The reception was at Blue Harbor. The food was very good. A nice salad, crunchy bread, chicken, rice and wedding cake. John looked very handsome and Holly, of course, was beautiful. I wish them joy and love forever.

I sat at a table with George and Betsy, Randy and Donna and Jeff and Kathy. That was especially fun. We were talking about babies. Donna and I. I told her of Randy's baptism. Aunt Lois was Randy's godmother and I was her proxy at the ceremony because Aunt Lois lived in California. I was in the convent at the time but was allowed to come home for a visit for the baptism.

Our cousin, Michael Deeley, Jack's son, who committed suicide several years ago, was his godfather. I don't think that Mickey, who was the youngest of two children, had ever seen a new baby before in his life. To us, who had seen babies come in every couple of years, the bloom was off the rose. But to Mickey this was a major miracle. He looked at his little hands and his little toes and his tiny face and marveled that all the parts were there and complete. He couldn't believe that this small person was as complete as a full grown person. That is a very special memory. Randy was a beautiful baby.

A haiku



The cat in the beam
Of sun, stretches languidly
Soaking up the warmth.

Mary