18/03/2025
50 years!!! ~ the celebrations have begun!
I am incredibly grateful to have lived half a decade.
This weekend I gathered some of my closest friends from all parts of my life and we celebrated. It was really beautiful and gave me perspective on what I have created and given birth to over the years. It's been a full and exciting life that I've created and been blessed with. I've met thousands of people from all over the world, hundreds of whom I can call friends. I've been blessed with an incredible husband and children. I have met so many wonderful people, had and have countless amazing friends, students, boyfriends and lovers. There has been a richness to my life experience which is a phenomenal blessing.
Grateful to recieve any gifts:
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Thank you to my closest and dearest friends for your love. So many to name and in order of when we met...Jenn, Mike, Hannah, Laura, Carrie, Paul, Christian, Jonathan, Dom, Helen, Chris and Debbie, Tim, Doug, Juan Carlos, Oliver and Ana, Samten nee Peewee, Tudor, Bogdan, Eelco, Tom, Tendai, Eric, Echo, Maud and Selma, Katha and all those who have loved me deeply.
Thank you to my family, my parents, my brother.
And most of all, thank you Emi, Caesar and Ananda. the loves of my life ###
Sharing this poem from my birthday ceremony:
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
