It's A Special Birthday Today

Life is especially special on a birthday counting everything together from that person's special celebration and then all the everyday things that naturally occur with some rhyme, some reason - sometimes none at all. It all just sort of happens and you never know when or why and so often you just have to deal or not, remember or not - and move on. Life has to have motion in it. It's best to have activity and to have a sense of purpose. Today's is to celebrate the life of someone special that we are so happy to have in our lives. It's a time to reflect on the special bonds that we have forged between the family - those ties that are strong and sometimes loose and tenuous and sometimes indelible and inscrutable and binding and maddening and thrilling and enthralling / appalling - pleasing.

We love him, he's special and gifted and talented and theatrical and totally high maintenance though he does not know it or acknowledge it. That's okay. We celebrate his life and all that he adds to ours. It sure would be another world to us without him to add and color ours. He's got such a great smile even with braces. He lights up the room when he smiles. He got texting for his big birthday present. That's what he wanted most. He's talking now, was texting earlier. That's cool even though people don't say that any more. It's a generational thing, adjusting to new expressions and things that are popular today.

Today we got an " new " used tred mill and a " new " used desk. For one we paid nothing but offered up a bottle of French 2005 biodynamic country red blend in exchange, and the other we paid $10. They are both here installed and in place and the world here has shifted just ever so slightly as we made and arranged room in our lives for these two new/old things. Soon we will go malling - to the mall - to the BIG mall called Tysons! I hate it but he loves it : so off we go after lunch. That's cool with us. Even my other half will come with us this time. It will be just the merry three of us in search of new/exciting experiences - shared and that will bring us closer on this special day and help us focus even more on this special bond that he gives us and everyone that his life has touched in the past and now. WOW. Heady stuff, so primal, so personal, so life-sustaining with hope and promise and happiness spread all round. Than k you Oh Special One for being such a wonder and a wiz and a great addition to our lives. TONY