Weekly Prompt: Laps Around the Sun
We’re celebrating birthdays and anniversaries.
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3 min readDec 3, 2021
Welcome to the next weekly challenge for the monthly theme:
The aim of this month is to celebrate all the important moments in our lives. Despite the challenges this year — or because of them — we need to celebrate.
In this first prompt, we celebrate the cycles, the laps around the sun, our journeys with Apollo. We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.
Although this is Paul’s idea, I celebrate my wedding anniversary and my brother’s birthday one after the other this month on the 21st and the 22nd.
When we were planning our wedding, it seemed like a fun coincidence to get married the day before my best man’s birthday.
It was a Wednesday of fine weather with rain clouds that danced over us without lingering. A day when I’d written two versions of my groom’s speech, weather depending.
