Rain & Rainbows

When I left work on Friday evening, it was really cloudy but not raining. As I drove toward my apartment, it still wasn’t raining. I sat in the construction traffic just south of my apartment, and it was still dry. So I drove past home and up to the park where I often take outfit photos. I parked my car. I reapplied my lipstick. I powdered my nose (and by “nose” I mean my whole face because I’m a shiny mess by the end of the day). No rain. I walked around to my trunk, took out my camera, and attached it to my tripod. Rain? Nope.

Then I walked to the spot where I wanted to take photos and…

Drip. Drop. Drip….DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP!!!!!

Are you kidding me? So then I had to haul ass back to my car lest I ruin my camera or (more importantly) my suede shoes. I was so annoyed. Blogger problems, amiright? But I loved this outfit so much I wanted to make sure I got some photos of it, even if it was just on my ugly (but covered) balcony.

Plus, this will go down in history as the outfit I was wearing the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to marry the person of your choosing, regardless of that person’s sex, is a fundamental Constitutional right. Of course I’m happy about what this means for me personally (now I won’t be magically “unmarried” when I go to visit my family in North Carolina), but I might be even more happy to feel like all those grand declarations about America and freedom actually apply to everyone, including some people who might have thought they would live their whole lives feeling like second-class citizens in their own country. If I can put on my lawyer hat for a second, I’d love to share my favorite parts of the Court’s opinion (which I read immediately, of course):

“The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution’s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed.
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The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have seemed natural and just, but its inconsistency with the central meaning of the fundamental right to marry is now manifest. With that knowledge must come the recognition that laws excluding same-sex couples from the marriage right impose stigma and injury of the kind prohibited by our basic charter.”

How great is that? It’s an exciting time to be alive, you guys. Hope your Sunday is filled with love and rainbows (but not rain, because rain’s annoying).

Skirt (on sale) // similar Top // similar Bag // Shoes (on sale) // Rings* // Bracelet

*Rings purchased with gift card provided courtesy of Shopbop.