really, someone far better than i am at posting e-flowers and silly smilies should be starting this thread...

it's just that i got so excited when tam told me today is her special day that i had to do it. so here's everything i know about smilies, kidz: : crazy:

and tamara, further to our deep and very profound telephone conversation of this morning, i'd just like to say this -- forget about the past, for i cannot change it; don't worry about the future, for i cannot predict it; and above all, nevermind the present, for I DIDN'T GET YOU ONE!!! hahaha

forgive me please? i couldn't resist that one.

but i do have something for you, for all of us really, and here it is:


Love After Love
by Derek Wilson

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 yourself.
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 image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


Here's wishing you a very beautiful and special birthday in your new desert home. it is wonderful to see you back on the forum. you have been sorely missed!

xo
alison
"Be Brave"