Beth, September, 1981
Beth, October 6, 2007
Today I'm 34. It's the last year that I can check the "25-34" age category!!There are lots of things I know now that I didn't know any time before this moment, and I'd like to reflect on them:
Any moment can be held onto as long as we want to, and we can also choose to let go of these moments. They don't necessarily define us.
Hangovers are bad, and no longer worth the few hours of gregariousness that drinking provides.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Intuition is good, but can also be thinly-disguised projection. Either way, it's a shot in the dark to intuit something, because we never know what's outside of our own minds. Therefore, we never really know if our intuition is correct. Too much error variance kicking around in that equation (I can hear the snorts coming from my schoolmates).
You can still be a feeling person and emotion-regulate.
Too much of anything is not a good thing.
Things really do skip a generation.
If we are angry at someone, it's more than likely that we are seeing something we dislike about ourselves in someone else. Really. Look deep into it. Deeper. Deeper. Yep, there it is. Don't you feel better now?
Elders, however naive and/or misguided you feel they are, really do know a lot more than you do. It pays to listen to their perspective. You'd be surprised at how yours will be similar to theirs at some point.
Happy Birthday to Me.
I miss my loved ones like crazy and I had a lonely birthday without Mom and Mike, Eric, Grandma and Kevin, Jason, and Devin. As usual, no birthday goes without thinking of Dad. Thanks to all of my loved ones for loving me and walking with me on my path. I love you all so much.
5 comments:
momma its okay if we polar bears can survive shrinking ice caps i think youll be alright its tuff to be out there alone but we oso's are behind you one hundred percent we know you can do it. if the going gets tuff just maul maul maul and not the frinedly type we maul you with momma. happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday
time is done things are gone
pass me by
but you keep calling out to me
bring me close from the dark
lead me back
warm my mind and stay forever
together now be realeased
find me there
send me quite after hours
speak in soft and gentle years
take me home
fill my life with spoken treasures
till the end and to the start
bring me peace
tell me only what you're living
pretend that i could become
more then these fears
sell me only what you're giving
stay with me through your tomorrows
now and ever
come with no misgiveings borrowed
cut not sevre
live in hopes or peaceful sorrows
but together
stay with me through your tomorrows
now forever
theres your song mama happy birthday
love you bethie. wish we could've been there and enjoyed a big ol cake with icecream. *hugs*
Yo yo yo! (I don't know what possessed me to start off the comment that way...hm...? Kind of a flash back to the Chase days?) Anyway, happy birthday! I appreciate your birthday words of wisdom...you ARE wise! And not just because you're getting older! You always have been wise! And awesome! And so smart and caring and intelligent across the whole damn spectrum! I hope we can see each other this coming weekend! At the least, let's exchange birthday gifts so we can save on postage! Holler! Love ya!
Don't know how I ended up here, but I am glad I did. It makes me happy to remember the time that you spent with me and my new family. It was comforting having you there. Happy birthday, however late. Your never alone. You are just down the street. It's a big ass street but that's all it is.
Come visit.
Love Ryan and the fam.
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