mattie and jes
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
So I didn’t make any postcards but I found some great faces, and some particularly joyful faces.
We went to Isle au Haut, and it was beautiful. I had no batteries and lots of fog for the ceremony, so I stopped trying to record it and set about remembering it instead. It was outside, on the lawn of the house Jes grew up in, with all of us facing them and the water beyond and the little islands and ocean beyond that. The fog kept people from looking too far away, but made all the colors more intense.
In their vows, they married each other and the sea. I didn’t expect that, but it makes sense. It makes explicit something about my brother that many people comment on – his connection to and requirement for the ocean. It turns out, it works in a similar way for Jes. So I think they will be OK. I hope they will be.
It was very, very fine.
Here are some pictures of the surroundings:
And now, some more face postcards.
Lee Thomson 
I’ve always wanted to go to Isle au Haut, and someday I’d like to meet Mattie and Jess.
One of our favorite lullabies is a song named Isle au Haut by Gordon Bok:
If I could give you three things,
I would give you these:
Song and laughter and a wooden home
In the shining seas
Chorus:
When you see old Isle au Haut
Rising in the dawn,
You will play in yellow fields
In the morning sun.
Sleep where the moon is warm
And the moon is high.
Give sadness to the stars,
Sorrow to the sea.
Do you hear what the sails are saying
In the wind’s dark song?
Give sadness to the wind,
Blown alee and gone.
Sleep now, the moon is high,
And the wind blows cold;
For you are sad and young
And the sea is old.
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