Birthday Thanks
Feb. 13th, 2005 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplerabbitToday is my 43rd birthday. Which means this is the beginning of my 44th year of life. Today I am happy to have been born. Even more so, I am happy to be alive still and want much more time in this complicated life.
Thanks very much to all the friends who helped me celebrate last night. More than 30 people came to honor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deedeebythebay and myself on this anniversary. There were the traditional cake, ice cream and presents. I, for example, now have a lovely collection of bath products, chocolates and other nice things. I enjoyed the traditional birthday round where each person says how long they have known me (us) and tells a story about the birthday person(s).
I really enjoyed watching my friends have fun. I was filled with such love and yet felt separate from most around me. Sometimes I get a bit philosophical on birthdays. (And water is wet, I know.) I found myself wondering at the many friends I have made in my life and wondering about all of them. Where has your life taken you, old friends? Wondering about the lives I have touched and who have touched mine.
One of my gifts last night from my two sweeties, was the Tracy Chapman album I didn't have, Let it Rain. At a quieter moment in the main room, I put on the CD and danced. It felt good to move. It felt more me than anything else. It saddens me a bit that so few of my newer friends know that part of me -- the ecstatic dancer. It is so central to my self-concept. So I make a wish on my birthday -- to dance again, to feel and love the music, to bring joy to myself and others through my movement/energy. May the gods grant it be so.
I love you all.
Thanks very much to all the friends who helped me celebrate last night. More than 30 people came to honor
deedeebythebay and myself on this anniversary. There were the traditional cake, ice cream and presents. I, for example, now have a lovely collection of bath products, chocolates and other nice things. I enjoyed the traditional birthday round where each person says how long they have known me (us) and tells a story about the birthday person(s). I really enjoyed watching my friends have fun. I was filled with such love and yet felt separate from most around me. Sometimes I get a bit philosophical on birthdays. (And water is wet, I know.) I found myself wondering at the many friends I have made in my life and wondering about all of them. Where has your life taken you, old friends? Wondering about the lives I have touched and who have touched mine.
One of my gifts last night from my two sweeties, was the Tracy Chapman album I didn't have, Let it Rain. At a quieter moment in the main room, I put on the CD and danced. It felt good to move. It felt more me than anything else. It saddens me a bit that so few of my newer friends know that part of me -- the ecstatic dancer. It is so central to my self-concept. So I make a wish on my birthday -- to dance again, to feel and love the music, to bring joy to myself and others through my movement/energy. May the gods grant it be so.
I love you all.
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Date: 2005-02-13 10:03 pm (UTC)happy brtihday !!!!
Date: 2005-02-14 12:33 am (UTC)Congratulations!
Date: 2005-02-14 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-14 07:28 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday
Date: 2005-02-15 12:55 am (UTC)Many days of good luck to come!