“Marriage takes work, otherwise you’re home together all day.”
—Matt Diffee

Meghan and I got married 14 years ago today. As I was making this collage, I came across this silly tagline from a cognac ad in a magazine. It seemed like the perfect fit.

After all these years, we’re still a team. A unified front.

I often think of Leo and Diane Dillon, the illustrator couple who collaborated on covers and picture books:

After sufficient back-and-forth, and sufficient spirited argument, the resulting image appeared, they often said, to have been the work of an unseen but very much present third party, whom they called “It.”

1 + 1 = 3. A third party. A whole bigger than our parts.

Me at 20.

Girl in the photo was 21 and bought me beer.

We’re still married. pic.twitter.com/3DYSL1OAQd

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) April 17, 2020