Today the most amazing thing happened
at the Lihue public library after reading to the kids.
(I’ve been doing this on Monday afternoons since August).
Sj Daisy left, and I returned to the main area in her stead (i.e. sans overalls and hairdo). I was speaking with the young adult librarian when a little girl came up to me and said, “You look like Sj Daisy!”
“Do I?” I replied.
“Yes!” she said with enthusiasm.
We went over to the flyer posted on the wall.
“She’s my cousin,” I explained.
“She looks a lot like you!” she said again.
LOL. So cute!
This little girl’s name btw?
Daisy.
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For real.
Life is full of such wonderful surprises!!!
: )))
~ Sj ~
Eyes wide awake at midnight, I smile.
It’s my birthday!
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear Sj,
Happy Birthday to me.
Giggles in my warm bed.
Giggles of joy to be alive.
Happy Birthday me again, Sj!
And I do.
I sing yet again to myself.
I feel my Dad watching and laughing.
I hear my five year old self call out, “Happy Birthday me again, Daddy!”
And he did.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Until his last time seven years ago.
Awake.
Quietly awake.
Peacefully awake.
And as I lay in my warm bed covered in quilts that my sister made for me,
I gave thanks
To be alive
To be alive
To be alive!
And then the pull of sleep called me to her breast,
until once again I awoke . . .
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday dear Sj, Happy Birthday to me.
And then fb called my name.
Yes, fb, lol.
I heeded the call.
Read the many loving messages.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mahalo.
I love YOU!
Happy face.
Hearts galore.
I love you.
I LOVE you.
Again I lay in silence,
Until once again, I awoke.
It’s my Birthday, my Birth
Day.
And as I rose, I saw another message.
One of concern
not for me
but for
another
Worry
Worry
Worry
and what called me instead was
Love
Love
Love
All there is is love.
All there is is love.
On this day when I rise with double-nickles in my eyes . . .
I’ve felt so much already . . . and it’s not even 8 o’clock in the morn’.
. . .
Faith
Hope
and
Love
And the greatest of these
is
Love.
–Sj