taryn riddle

For someone who writes a lot about impermanence, I made a rather permanent decision on Saturday… I got married.💌💍
I simply cannot distill the tea 🫖 about how we got here & how the day went into an Instagram caption. So follow my Substack for that future post…. But one question I keep getting is, “How does it feel now that you’re finally married?”
And my answer is—well—I don’t feel much different. But I’m not underwhelmed by that; not in the slightest.
See, in my private vows, I talked a lot about the tiny, “mundane” moments: Weaving through shopping carts for a Costco hotdog, taking turns blow-drying our dog after a bath, or wondering if we can steal each other’s last Celsius without the other noticing.
Marriage might not necessarily be built on moments like these. But it is (if I had to guess) probably kept alive by them. And I think that’s why being married hasn’t felt like such a dramatic shift. Because if those are the moments that sustain a marriage, then in that specific way, I feel like I’ve been married for years already.
So ya, maybe I feel just “the same.” Not much has changed (except his last name💸). And I’m not underwhelmed, but perfectly whelmed—I couldn’t be happier about all of it.
And that’s the nutshell: we’ve always just been “us.” Same old book, new chapter.📚 Now legally bound & tied with a ribbon;)🎀
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Photos📸: John O'Brien: Boston-based Photographer

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‘and some flowers will die anyway’ is a poetry collection about impermanence. it is about healing and the struggle to accept the beauty of temporary things. the grief of watching things change over time while learning to love them in that process. it is about realizing for the first time the things we never noticed we have been experiencing for the last times. 🥀

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🌻🌻this one’s for my dad🌻

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i am lucky to feel all of the emotions ✨🌷

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things are temporary, there is beauty in that✨

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this is called anticipatory grief and i have a lot of it in my heart 🙋‍♀️

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