Well neither can I...
So I hit the big FIVE-OH today! Half a century I have walked this mortal coil, and I remember some of it. Good times, bad times, are all assembled together in my little grey cells. It's my birthday, the happiest day of the year, and I am feeling a bit Eeyore'ish. It CAN'T be a crisis because I don't have a convertible
Reflecting back I have a lot to be grateful for. A good marriage, good kids (finally), and a lot of things I am proud of. And a few things I am not so proud of. My mom posted a picture of me on Facebook that was taken about 7 years ago in a birthday message. It was taken while my wife and I were on a surprise weekend getaway that was totally funded by my oldest son. It was taken one week before we lost him. It shows the last real smile that I can remember. I am sure I have smiled and been happy since, but there is always an underlying sense of loss, and birthdays and holidays are the worst.
But I am happy that I have been able to meet a lot of you and have been able to trade with some of you. It does a heart good to be generous - even it is that crappy tobacco you didn't like so much I don't have my birthyear Dunhill; but I have people here that I count as friends, and for that I am very grateful. And as Ray Wiley Hubbard says, "The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations; those are really good days.
So like I said, feeling a bit Eeyore'ish, but heading out to birthday dinner with the fam, and then a jazz concert. Life is good.
Keep being awesome!!
So I hit the big FIVE-OH today! Half a century I have walked this mortal coil, and I remember some of it. Good times, bad times, are all assembled together in my little grey cells. It's my birthday, the happiest day of the year, and I am feeling a bit Eeyore'ish. It CAN'T be a crisis because I don't have a convertible
Reflecting back I have a lot to be grateful for. A good marriage, good kids (finally), and a lot of things I am proud of. And a few things I am not so proud of. My mom posted a picture of me on Facebook that was taken about 7 years ago in a birthday message. It was taken while my wife and I were on a surprise weekend getaway that was totally funded by my oldest son. It was taken one week before we lost him. It shows the last real smile that I can remember. I am sure I have smiled and been happy since, but there is always an underlying sense of loss, and birthdays and holidays are the worst.
But I am happy that I have been able to meet a lot of you and have been able to trade with some of you. It does a heart good to be generous - even it is that crappy tobacco you didn't like so much
I don't have my birthyear Dunhill; but I have people here that I count as friends, and for that I am very grateful. And as Ray Wiley Hubbard says, "The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations; those are really good days.So like I said, feeling a bit Eeyore'ish, but heading out to birthday dinner with the fam, and then a jazz concert. Life is good.
Keep being awesome!!
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