Acts of Surrender 9: The Heart of Rebirth

This excerpt from Acts of Surrender, my memoir-in-progress, explores birth and rebirth in the run-up to my birthday this weekend.

In six days I'll be 56. Five days, really, if you figure that here in California the hour of my birth falls on October 2. (I was born just the other side of midnight, Montreal time, on October 3.)

So far, this is showing up as perhaps the strangest — and potentially most powerful — birthday ever.

I don't remember anything about my childhood birthdays. I don't remember...