A year later

Friday, January 15, 2010

Its been a year since our wedding-- a chaotic, painful, joyous and sweet year of making our lives one.

We've made three moves and stood beside two of my sisters (Julie, my twin, and Kristin, my sister in spirit) as they too have entered into marriage. After three job changes and a bout of unemployment, Jeremy is back to meter reading again--happily forging his way through dogs and fences, exploring the landscape of Dayton and all the area around. And after finally finishing my Master's degree, I am teaching high school again and playing the piano at church, full of gratitude that my jobs allow me to be surrounded by people I love.

And so the New Year has found us finally moving in a rhythm. Rooted in our little house, hemmed in by the liturgical year, we feel ready to make our way forward.

First things

Sunday, September 28, 2008

"In 1875, a Massachusetts farmer, curious about the growing power of expanding apples, melons and squashes, harnessed a squash to a weight-lifting device which had a dial like a grocer's scale to indicate the pressure exerted by the expanding fruit. As the days passed, he kept piling on counterbalancing weight; he could hardly believe his eyes when he saw his vegetables quietly exerting a lifting force of 5 thousand pounds per square inch."

~Rutherford Platt, The Great American Forest


"My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow."

~Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"


Welcome to our site. We are Jenny Sullivan and Jeremy Downey, soon to be wed. We hope to make of this a journal of sorts of our life together. For now, the site will function largely as an informational resource for our upcoming wedding.