Today is my birthday. <\/p>\n
Being another year older has never bothered me, as I know it does for some. I am so grateful to be alive, to breathe and to think and to feel and to laugh and to love and to taste and drink from this miraculous life. <\/p>\n
Being older does hit with sledgehammer fear that the ride is almost over and you have to get off. It hits me that I have one more year to be thankful for living. <\/p>\n
To see. To taste. To feel. To live fully. These are the things that I want to reaffirm on my birthday.
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