Birthday wishes...
...As he worked on the room, and as it began slowly to take a shape, he realized that for many years, unknown to himself, he had had an image locked somewhere within him like a shamed secret, an image that was ostensibly of a place but which was actually of himself. So it was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. As he sanded the old boards for his bookcases, and saw the surface roughnesses disappear, the gray weathering flake away to the essential wood and finally to a rich purity of grain and texture - as he repaired his furniture and arranged it in the room, it was himself that he was slowly shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible...
- John Williams, Stoner
With each new day you have the opportunity to learn things, create things and experience new life. Sometimes you are given chances and sometimes you choose. But each day you are given the means to shape the YOU that you truly are. May your next trip around the sun be full of many in-between moments; that your "kind of order" finds you, along with a peaceful center full of gratitude for your blessings, a tranquil awareness of self, beautiful insight, a sense of direction, and love, in its rawest form. Today is yours...enjoy the small pleasures of life...like donuts, coffee and a great book!
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