Hey Lizzie, I haven’t peeped your blog in a while and you got married??? How was it? How’s married life?? Did you and Beau have a traditional wedding or a more Hellenistic wedding?? Also, unrelated, what have you found a out bears in relation to the Greek myths??

pomegranateandivy:

Lol, welcome back! Yeah, I married my partner of seven years back in August. It was a civil ceremony at the courthouse, because he joined the army and we had just under 4 weeks before he left for basic. Married life right now is basically multiple love letters a week, because we miss each other a lot, and between basic and the training he receives after that for his actual job, Beau is going to be away from home for 9 months. He’s always been a bit of a romantic, but being apart like this, he wrote that it really made some things clear to him about his priorities in life and he’s gotten very vocal about his love for me and our family. It’s really sweet and always makes me tear up when I read his letters.

As far as bears in myth, there’s that myth about Artemis and Callisto. But I can’t think of any others off the top of my head

Another bear related tradition: young girls would “play the bear” for Artemis when they made the transition out of girlhood. There were swings involved, I’m not sure