Elaine and I made a promise to each other today. We made a promise about where we want our relationship to go. We made a promise about what we want out of our lives and how we each see the other in that picture.

We both know that it is going to take time to gain confidence that we can both keep this promise. We both know that life isn't always easy and doesn't always go to plan, and it takes time to ensure that a promise like this can stand up to the vicissitudes of mundane fortune. We plan to put in that time and the effort it takes to build a really solid foundation. Right now we are both working to become the people we need to be both separately and together, and some of that has been very difficult to do and there is more hard work to come. We don't know how long it will take, but we both know why we want to. This a promise to stay on the same path to the same end.

There is a word for binding to this kind of solemn promise, but like so many things in these modern times it rarely gets used the way it used to be meant anymore.

We're engaged.

One of the pictures from the Columbia Gorge shoot for Art of Adornment is published in the current issue of Gothic Beauty (Issue 25, p.33). Below is a scan with the associated text from accompanying article by Acid PopTart highlighted.

Saturday afternoon I did a shoot with valerian and her kambriel dress. When we were looking thought the pictures on the camera Elaine suggested I run the bunch from the last set together as a video. Here is the result: