Solstice

Five years ago today I married my best friend in a meadow. I am one of those people that never thought it could happen to them. Doomed to be eternally single? You never know where love is lurking, waiting to pounce. Sometimes you just have to open your heart to the unknown.

Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett

Sadie Hawkins

In Li’l Abner, Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch’s earliest settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. When she reached the age of 35, still a spinster, her father decreed a “Sadie Hawkins' Day” more specifically a foot race with Sadie in hot pursuit of the town’s eligible bachelors---and matrimony was the consequence. If a woman caught a bachelor and dragged him, kicking and screaming, across the finish line before sundown---by law he had to marry her.

Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett 2012