Not Really Arrows

Another birthday for one of my Darling Daughters.

She's all grown up and I couldn't be prouder.

One of the kindest, empathetic person I know.

Really cute, too.

She is a meticulous housekeeper.

I made this for her so that she won't have to put anyone in particular on the spot at her home.

Your house, Your rules, eh Mugs?

Happy Birthday!

 

Beautiful Joyous Birthday Girl!!!

It's all true.

Grandchildren really are the coolest.

My own daughters are still and always will be the greatest possible humans.

But this generation they have begun are remarkable.

Happy First Birthday, Ellie!

Thanks Google Again

Happy birthday, Ada.

Now there's a mathematician worth emulating.

Screw her crazy family.

Oh, and best wishes to all sharing a December birth.

Still can't wait for this wretched month to be over.

Guess Who Is The Birthday Girl?!

Have a great one!

I love you!

xoxo, mommy

Celebrate! Celebrate! You ALWAYS Can Celebrate Your Birthday! (For My Sister Mary)

Today's Birthdays according to Dead or Alive.  Bet all these folks would celebrate if they could.  And it was allowed.



9/26/1875 Edmund Gwenn Entertainment
9/26/1888 T.S. Eliot Literature
9/26/1889 Martin Heidegger Philosophy
9/26/1895 George Raft Entertainment
9/26/1897 Pope Paul VI Religion
9/26/1907 Anthony Blunt Art,Espionage
9/26/1909 Bill France, Sr. Sports
9/26/1914 Jack LaLanne Other
9/26/1919 Barbara Britton Entertainment
9/26/1925 Marty Robbins Music
9/26/1926 Julie London Entertainment,Music
9/26/1932 Manmohan Singh Politics
9/26/1933 Donna Douglas Entertainment
9/26/1934 Winnie Mandela Politics
9/26 1947 My Ex Husband
9/26/1942 Kent McCord Entertainment
9/26/1944 Anne Robinson Entertainment
9/26/1945 Bryan Ferry Music
9/26/1946 Andrea Dworkin Social Activism,Liter...
9/26/1947 Lynn Anderson Music
9/26/1948 Olivia Newton-John Music,Entertainment
9/26/1948 Mary Beth Hurt Entertainment,Theater
9/26/1956 Linda Hamilton Entertainment
9/26/1966 Craig "Ironhead" Heyward Sports
9/26/1967 Shannon Hoon Music

All the Best to these Birthday Folk!!

Indian Summer

Are we allowed to use Indian Summer as the title for this current season?  I hope so because today was absolutely glorious.

If a Top Month Contest was taking place, I think September would be way out in front thus far.  My ballot would include:

1 to 3.  Days with Baby Sister
4.  Shower at home
5. Tried to read
6. Library Guy
7. Did my own laundry!
8.Enjoyed aroma of burning leaves outside my window
9. Emails to friends and instructors
10. Check in on new blog lists
11. Broccoli quiche'
12. This date open
13. Ancient Vehicle has been repaired
14. Household plants
15. Send cards and thank you
16. Carnation shopping
17. Sister's birthday!
18,  Company
19. Doctor appointments
20. Another
21. Glitter letters
22. Therapy progress
23. Daughters
24. Company
25. Grandchildren
26. Ex-husband's birthday
27. Library Guy
28 to 30th Eldest Younger Brother!!!

Ready to go.  Hopeful and flexible.

My New Hero

Editta Sherman

Photographer

Crusader for Tenants' Rites

Founder of the Fashion Institute of Technology

Feisty Broad

Happy 100th Birthday!



Ta Ta April

The last few years the entire Fall Holiday Season has lost its magic for me.  No house equals no trick or treaters to laugh at and feed candy to on Halloween.  I especially miss the wine drinking on my front porch.  (Big nostalgic sigh...)  Competition for who gets to hold  the Annual Drink Yourself Into Oblivion Fest known as Thanksgiving is a sport in which I do not participate.  And Christmas is...well...not very Christmasy.

Not to worry!

April has the best holidays anyway!  And much better weather.  Not even I gripe about an early spring or too much rain.  How can you go wrong with a month that literally begins celebrating foolishness?

Earth Day was the first "artificial" holiday I became aware of and whole heartily supported.  Has it become a Hallmark holiday?  Are there cards and commemerative ornaments to be purchased?  Shame, shame on somebody.

And, thanks to the all knowing Subterranean guru, I learned about National Record Store Day!  All hail vinyl!  How we miss ye!  First best lifetime shopping experience was browsing the bins at Rose Records in Chicago with a boyfriend I knew was going to dump me.  No worries.  I found the Coltrane.

And thanks to the following website                                             

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/april.htm

I also discovered that April includes celebrations of poetry and pecans,  libraries, road maps, and karaoke.  And encouraging days for keeping America beautiful and for sexual assault awareness.  Maybe not the kind of holidays where one must overspend on gifts or travel to dinners with people we would rather not see; but I bet the suicide rate doesn't rise during National Walk to Work Day either.

 
May certainly has some big shoes to fill.

Paulina Poriskova, Edweard Muybridge, And AJS

Every year on my Darling Daughters' birthdays I try to write an appropriate post.

One that will let them know how special and treasured they are;

how their presence has enriched my life and

quite literally made the entire  planet a better place.

I believe this.

Today is this One's birthday.

Not my first born.

The first one I was allowed to keep and bring home however.

Always considered a great gift from whatever spiritual authority is in charge.

She was a challenging infant, toddler, child, and adolescent.

My Experimental Baby.

She ran away a few times.

This is her on her wedding day.

She was majestic that day and she is more remarkable now.

I think she has stopped running.

Happy Birthday, Beets!