A Toast

  A Toast
                                                   


    After many unsuccessful drafts of an esoteric work intending to be as profound as a decennium of life I realized simplicity can hold a greater significance when it comes from the heart. So here It goes.
    I first would like to say "Thank You" for the invitation to such a majestic occasion. When Susan informed me of this Holiday celebration I imagined the typical Rosser soiree. A celebration of Christmas and New Years, attended by the customary cast, playing the expected roles as they have many times before.  Upon opening the invitation I realized this celebration would be notably different. This is no common-place event, not by any means. This is an inimitable occasion.
    Susan, Randall, you both became a part of my life around the same time you became a part of each other’s. I've watched you exchange vows, grow this house into a home, advance your education, say good-bye to the cherished and accepted a new generation into your hearts.  I believe this experience allows me a unique insight and perspective into your time together.
        During an age when marriage is as ephemeral as time itself. I am appreciative that I possess a decade of memories representing the cumulative experience of your marriage. Finding a kaleidoscope of these memories lingering deep within my character I can't help but ponder this observation in order to find what lessons they have imparted. I think If I had to recapitulate the sum of teachings that your life together has imbued in me I would find myself pontificating once more, a quote, that was declared by my most favorite “Muffin Lady”.  “When you find the person you were meant to share your life with you realize that they make life  effortless not arduous.” I've never held in higher esteem truer words than these.
    Now this doesn't mean Susan and Randall's marriage was somehow exempt from life. They haven’t experienced a decade in a snow-globe of perfection. Like any other marriage you will find the multitude of genre’s that life undoubtably forces upon us.  I have seen them abide both great loss and great joy. When I embrace this view I realize that at the hand of tears, laughter, cheers and even disaster, with endless nights at each other's side, there's  a union of support that only love can provide, and through which they have managed to navigate life’s labyrinth bringing a sense of calm and ease as they continue to traverse into the unknown, a team of symbiotic union. This is the utterance I believe Susan wants us all to realize, and on this night we are all here to acknowledge her message. 
    So it is with great humility and contrition that I find myself unable to attend tonights landmark of festivities that represent a decade of union between Randall and Susan. It is my intention and hope that you find yourselves with glasses full so as to be able to commence in a toast of celebratory cheer marking Susan and Randall’s ten years past with a boundless sum yet to come. 
    With all my love I wish you both years of continued rapture.

Your friend,
        Bill