I started the day with a cinnamon roll as big as my head and things just got better from there. Life has changed and that was never more clear than when Alexa sang Happy Birthday and proudly displayed JIM”S BIRTHDAY PARTY on the screen. Played the Beatles song and received good wishes from a host of my lovely people. Yes, I sang the doo doo doos out loud.
Being severely overeducated I remembered the lines of old Ausonius, “let us never know what old age is . Let us know the happiness time brings , not count😒 the years.” Good advice form the old Roman. My wife paid me the biggest compliment by posting, “A very happy birthday to my, “sure ,why not ” husband. I love being a, “sure why not guy” and I love it because of my lost, “WHY BOTHER” years. I have trained myself to say yes more often and to overcome some of my fears. This is the gift of time.
What really stands out is that I have miraculously gathered a significant number of people who actually give a damn about me. Greetings poured in and over me from all points of the compass and I am grateful for them. Call it a fellowship, a sangha, a tribe …I am so glad that I belong.
So, Thanks for another trip around the sun and the folks that will dance with me. A famous Buddhist -Adyashanti- put it memorably, ” We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.” I am very happy to be here.
Now it’s time for a party. See you there.
Olio Folio 