Blending

When I was married 23 years ago
We received a blender as a gift.
It was a 1984 multi-speed blender.
It could blend, sure, but it could also
chop, frappe, puree and more.

It had many buttons and settings
which did pretty much the same thing
but at various speeds with different names
Our first blender lasted almost 16 years
then one day it just stopped working.

So, for our 16th anniversary,
I bought David a blender as a gift.
Not having any traditional guidelines,
I determined that the 16th anniversary
is the Blender Anniversary, or must be
because that is when the blender dies.

The new blender has one toggle switch:
Off in the center, Up for fast , Down for slow.
It is chrome-like and sort of bee-hive shaped
in a retro design to look like something from
maybe 1950, which was designed back then
to look like it was from the future.  Which it is.

Do I really want to draw a metaphor between
the wedding blender and our early marriage
and how it broke after many years of use,
and today's blender, regarding our current arrangement?
Not really.  But you should know that it works just fine.

~Andrine de la Rocha

posted 3/25/2011