Tuesday, March 24, 2009

37

Sitting on the front porch in my great-grandma's rocking chair, trying to soak the newly-spring sunshine into my bones and store it there as a source of contentment... that's a good day.

Drinking my coffee as my daughter tumbles out of bed and runs downstairs because she can't wait to give me a hug and present me with the birthday card she made... that's a good day too.

Looking back to a year ago and realizing how much I've learned since then... knowing that every passing birthday brings me a little closer to being the person I was meant to be... you really can't ask for more than that.

Well, you can. But today I'm content. Today I won't.

4 comments:

  1. 37...a nice prime number (divisible evenly by only 1 and itself). I hope you have a prime year to go with it.

    I dug out my copy of Shadow and checked where you are (or were, p.118), and found you were on the Cragsguard temple sequence. I like that part. Both Ky and Symplex (whose origin with the group is in the journal version) have some funny quotes there. My favorites: Symplex: "Little One slurs the truth." Ky: "You are guilty of...everything."

    The temple search part I mention to you begins on page 186 with Stumpy.

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  2. 37 was a good year... followed upon short order by 41... I don't know how that happened....

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  3. Hmmm. Guess I know what I have to look forward to... these are the "disappearing" years.

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  4. Wait until you get to 50. It will give you a whole new meaning to 'disappearing years.'

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