Happy June Birthdays

Hello Friends,

Happy Birthday to everyone with a June Birthday.  And here is a little present for you all.    It's my birthday, too, and I have had a wonderful day so far.  I took Rascal for a walk this morning and was lucky to have my camera along.  I snapped these lovely flowers in my neighborhood.  Having no green thumb myself, I enjoy the neighbors flowers. Aren't these amazing? 

My family took me to lunch today at the White Chocolate Grill.  I love that place.

My older son Andrew called from Vegas and later I received another call from his girlfriend, a young woman who warms my heart so much.  I received cards from Vicky and Carolyn (very funny, ladies!) and from Mary Ann and her family.  Cindie sent me a wonderful gift. I expect 54 with be a great year.

Here is a poem called For your Birthday that my friend John sent me last year.  I keep it on my desk and look at it often.

Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day

The blueprint of your life

Would begin to glow on earth,

Illuminating all the faces and voices

That would arrive to invite

Your soul to growth.

Praised be your father and mother,

Who loved you before you were,

And trusted to call you here

With no idea who you would be.

Blessed be those who have loved you

Into becoming who you were meant to be,

Blessed be those who have crossed your life

With dark gifts of hurt and loss

That have helped to school you mind in the art of disappointment.

When desolation surrounded you,

Blessed be those you looked for you

And found you, their kind hands

Urgent to open a blue window

In the gray wall formed around you.

Blessed be the gifts you never notice,

Your health, eyes to behold the world,

Thoughts to countenance the unknown,

Memory to harvest vanished days,

Your heart to feel the world's waves,

Your breath to breathe the nourishment

Of distance made intimate by earth.

On this echoing-day of your birth,

May you open the gift of solitude

In order to receive your soul;

Enter the generosity of silence

To hear your hidden heart;

Know the serenity of stillness

To be enfolded anew

By the miracle of your being.

I don't recall the author but it has the word Thresholds  on the page which I think is the title of the chapter. It is as meaningful today as it was a year ago. (Thank you John)

Isn't it beautiful?

Blessed be all you you born this day, in June or any month of the year.