a guest blogger with some big news.

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Hello Everybody. Before reading this, you need to know three things:

1. This is Joseph. You know you’re a famous blogger when you have a guest blogger, so because Tahni is famous, or in attempt to make her so, here I am.

2. Just in case you don’t know, I’m in Greece too!

3. We’re engaged!!!!


So, I would love to go into detail about the proposal, but I’ll let her do that. I will say this, not everyone gets to propose next to an active crater on top of a volcano. But In effort to explain how I feel, try sitting outside or in a room, by yourself, and listening to “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds. Then, when it gets to the point where you feel so alive and by some innate impulse your hand wants to be held, imagine me with more joy than you can measure, knowing Tahni’s about to come back around the corner and hold my hand. I get to hold her hand. And no matter where she is, for the rest of our lives, her hand will be there to hold, with an innate desire to be held by mine.


Wow, what an experience this has been and will continue to be. Greece is beautiful. I can’t really find a better word. I just wish I could go back and erase from your mind all the things we call beautiful but are really just “nice looking”. Because we need to leave a special place for beautiful. So with that said, Greece is that kind of beautiful. To be able to be here with Tahni is priceless.

I think I’ll leave the day to day details for face to face conversations, but let’s see. You know the paint application on your computer? You know how there’s the pencil point option where you can make little dots, or the paint can option where you can fill in an entire space? I feel like this adventure, traveling in Greece with an engagement ring in my pocket, has been a paint can kind of adventure. My cup overfloweth. So many experiences to treasure. Whether it’s driving for an hour with Tahni in a busy city trying to find one gas station (laughing almost the whole time), finding our own part of Khathos beach, eating new food (and loving it), taking pictures of people taking pictures (more from Tahni on that later), or gazing at the most amazing panorama ever, this has just been one of those experiences. I feel so blessed to have this opportunity. One of those experiences where you don’t think about money, or your job, or the fact that you should be detoxing hardcore from a lack of Sportscenter.


Because it’s worth it to spend a week that you’ll think about for years. When I’m 80, and kids have 500,000 hrs of music downloaded onto a microscopic chip in their brains and can think “this song” to hear it, I’m gonna dust off the ole clunky iPod, click “The Luckiest”, and think about today.

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