Did you ever just look at your Wedding Ring? Part 2

I wear this wedding ring now and approaching our 1 year anniversary I thought it would be interesting to write some memories of the Lovely Mina's and my time together.

I remember going to look at rings and seeing various rings that were all nice enough. When we got to the Niessing counter at Isetan, though, they put this ring in my hand and somehow my mind was made up. Mina says it was the only ring that I reacted to with a "whoa". I had never seen anything like it. Yellow Gold and White Gold melded together so that the top of the ring is pure yellow and the bottom is pure white, but you can never see exactly where the transition occurs. Just a gorgeous piece of jewelry. Here's a photo of them:

I look at these rings as a symbol of our marriage as the melding of two cultures. Cheesy, perhaps, but in my mind here we are standing at the intersection of Japan and the U.S., teaching each other how we think as we go along. We are fusion and our children will be even more so.

So, I look at my ring from time to time and remember where we came from, and think about where we're going. I am so thankful that Mina believes in me enough to support me through this PhD at this stage of our lives. It would have been a lot easier for us to stay in Japan, for me to parlay my ACCJ job into a $100K position at some member company, and just to coast. I would always have wondered, though, what could have been and whether I wasn't really meant to teach at a university and research what I wanted to, when I wanted to. Here, now, we have the chance to make that happen.

Thank you Mina!