C-Love Test Entry - New Server
by Adverb
Proverb will hate this post. We've talked about it, or tried to, a few times but can't come to an agreement about the importance of mediocrity. She, like most people, finds the word unpleasant. I think it's something we should celebrate.
But, if Proverb, the most perceptive and intelligent person I've ever known, disagrees I'm either failing to communicate or I'm wrong. Maybe it's like my grand-daddy always said, "This conversation will only make sense if you understand what I'm saying."
We live in a world of superlatives, rankings, and comparisons. There's a 1-100, "best of" or "most" list for everything. And the world is competitive, even with respect to things that are ultimately subjective like fine art competitions and battles of the bands. The connotation attached to mediocre isn't pretty. Who wants to hear someone call their finest effort mediocre at best?
What I mean by advocating the celebration of mediocrity is that we should learn to cherish and celebrate personal excellence that is comparatively mediocre. Most of us do that most of the time when it comes to friends and family, but I think the inability to do it in general causes a fair amount of unnecessary pain.
Here's an example.
We returned on Monday from our trip to London. Five of us travelled together - Proverb, our daughter (almost 8-months-old), my father-in-law and his fianceé. We were there from last Thursday. Saw most of the main sites in London. What a beautiful city. Expensive, but very beautiful.
Finished publishing the Adverb entries from the old version of Contemporary Love. Was surprised to see that the last entry was back in January of 2004. Much has happened since then.
But no time for that now. Tomorrow morning we go to London for 4 days - Proverb, our daughter, and Proverb's father and his fiancé.
Will have some info and hopefully some photos from London when we return.
Next week I'll publish Proverb's old entries.
I'm not sure how long it's been since we've had this site up, but my guess is it's been close to two years. Fitting that it comes back online on Valentine's Day.
I'm in the process of re-publishing our old entries, which will take awhile. No telling when we'll have time to add new posts or get caught up with all that's gone on since our last post on the old Contemporary Love.
In a nutshell, Proverb and I are happily married since September 1, 2003, we still live in Portugal, and we now have a beautiful baby daughter who is seven-months-old.
Been a long, hard road, but one filled with a true contemporary love.
And to my Proverb - Happy Valentine's Day! I love you!