Birthday today. Thinking of the fountain of youth. I'll sip to the future that will be embedded in my progeny. I'll fill my cup with actions based on what will be important to the seventh generation. I'll twirl my toes in the placid place of gratitude. I'll smile more and thirst less and gulp with appreciation every drop of life. May every swallow enable aging with grace. Let me float in today, always hopeful of tomorrow's possibilities, but not living with what Black Swan author Nicholas Taleb, (whose hedge fund was up 65 to 115 percent for the year) calls future blindness. Yesterday is already down the drain. May the waters of living artfully never ebb, nor the choice to live responsibly, for oneself, for others, for the world around us. May the act of leaving a place better for my having been there continue to be a refreshing experience, a way to quench any sense of living on the take.
My gift: a bicycle. My day: with family and friends, in Tejas. My mother tells stories of times around when I was born. My children pay attention. Or not. We watch family movies taken when my father was a teenager in the 40's and 50s.
Cheers. To all of my years.
Happy Birthday! Beautifully written.
Posted by: janeywan | January 05, 2009 at 07:41 AM
Happy Birthday, MotherPie.
Posted by: Lauri | January 05, 2009 at 07:56 AM
Happy Birthday,and many,many more!
Posted by: carron e. | January 05, 2009 at 08:07 AM
Happy Birthday, Hattie!!!! I hope it's the beginning of some wonderful new adventures and that good health and good luck are with you!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | January 05, 2009 at 08:26 AM
Birthday blessings Mother Pie! May you have many more years, and hopefully will enjoy sharing them with us!
Posted by: allison | January 05, 2009 at 09:17 AM
You have such a wonderful perspective!! Thank you for sharing, and have a terrific birthday!!
Posted by: Kathy H. | January 05, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Too many years I have failed to wish you Happy Birthday!!! This year, especially, I send you buckets of blessings and wishes of happiness for another wonderful year. I am so thankful we are friends.
Posted by: Birdmom | January 05, 2009 at 06:38 PM
Belated good wishes for another year...and maybe a photo of you in your birthday year?
yours,naomi
Posted by: naomi dagen bloom | January 07, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Happy Birthday! Sorry I missed it - you share a birthday with my aunt and cousin (and I seem to remember making this exact comment last year . . .)
Posted by: Janet | January 28, 2009 at 08:57 AM