JANUARY 11, 2023
What do you-all do when a new birthday looms—or stretches out enticingly before you, like a friendly dog wanting a belly-rub? Look back? Look forward? Or just sit quietly and enjoy the moment?
I’m inclined to the last option there. I try to take a few deliberate minutes, to sit in my office in the depths of the night and Just Be. Whatever I am now, I won’t be again. On the other hand, what I am now, and what I’ve been every day since I was conceived, will go on with me in some form.
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Anne
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Jan 12, 2023 05:44AM
Happy Birthday, my friend. We've never met, yet I feel as if you are my friend. During the day I listen to other books, but it's always the voice of Claire (or Davina) telling me the story one of your Outlander (or Lord John) books that comfort me when I go to bed. I think I'm up to the 11th round, but who's counting. By the time one finishes all the big and little books, the beginning feels new. Thank you
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Look back or forward? Nah. Best not to think at all. Your mind is not your friend, after all. Yes, enjoy the moment if it is a peaceful one because there are very few of those and likely this one will be ripped mercilessly from your existence in just a few minutes. Happy birthday.
Birthdays can invite morbidity, so I focus on today. The memories of yesterday when revisited often pale in view of their reality.
Happy Birthday, Diana I wish you a very Blessed day.
