Happy birthday to me!

I’m 53! In about 12 hours, central standard time.

Some think me wicked.But I heard that it was best for local birds to keep the dead flowers on the plants to give them seed. So I did. I love critters. I plant for the impossible hummingbird that dwells in the urban world. I let the wasps do what they want, and at the end of seasons am rewarded with the remnants of their precious nests. I love architecture.

When I lived in the Pacific Northwest, I couldn’t get enough of the spiderwebs, dangling in dew. Or walking in Discovery Park, listening to the pods snapping from a particular bush.

Aquatic life. On a sand dunes vacation when I was about eight, I found a stone that resembeled a footprint.

A lotta people like me. An equal amount despise me.

Go figure. There isn’t much motivational greed in me.

But I still think it’s worth everything to speak one’s mind.

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    • melvin on September 17, 2007 at 08:13


    about Discovery Park:

    the bluffs, and

    the occasional cougar that would wander down the railroad tracks from points north. People always found that so amazing.

  1. and I did Bellingham, too.

    • begone on September 17, 2007 at 10:58

    Goddess knows I’m not with you on everything, but every
    woman having her mid-50’s birthday gets a little shout out from me.

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    This is a pic from a hike on the Oregon coast this summer,
    a mother-daughter hike that was somewhat of a hoot.

    We couldn’t go further out on the hike due to a very
    scary beehive right by the trail. Still, the going was
    marvelously gorgeous, and the bees, plentiful as they
    were, never stung us.

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    • on September 17, 2007 at 13:06

    really stupid essay, btw

    • mattes on September 17, 2007 at 13:47

    world is Ely, Minnesota. The Boundry Waters Canoe area. I am now in the Northwest and am trying to fall in love. Where are the best places to visit in eastern washington??

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  3. May you receive what you deserve
    for your birthday….

    I hope it is good….

    🙂

  4. By Cracker:

    lyrics:

    I was having a good sleep
    in my car
    In the, parking lot of the
    Showboat Casino hotel

    I say, “I remember you
    you drive like a PTA mother”
    You brought me draft beer
    in a plastic cup

    I’m feeling thankful
    for the small things, today
    I’m feeling thankful
    for the small things, today

    Happy, Happy Birthday to me
    Happy Birthday to me and to you

    Happy, Happy Birthday to me
    Happy Birthday to me and to you

    I’m feeling thankful
    for the small things, today
    I’m feeling thankful
    for the small things, today

    I remember you
    I crashed your wedding
    With some orange crepe paper
    and some Halloween candy

    And sometimes
    I wish I were Catholic
    I don’t know why
    I guess I’m happy to see your face
    at a time like this

    Happy, Happy Birthday to me
    Happy, Happy Birthday to me
    Happy Birthday baby, to me

  5. drove the extremely curvy Hwy 112 out to Cape Flattery; a map does NOT do it justice.  Also spent some time on Rialto Beach by La Push…was the very first time I had my foot in the ocean.  On a late October afternoon, that was a quick dip.

    Happy Birthday!!!–I like this:

    “But I still think it’s worth everything to speak one’s mind.”

    Peace.

    • KrisC on September 17, 2007 at 17:02

    We don’t know each other, but I can’t pass up a birthday wish…..
    I’m 40, which means I’m a Fire Horse and it’s probably best to stay far away from me….I bring bad luck to many!

    Have a few on me……

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    …well, not “on” me, but you get the idea…..

  6. I am putting you on notice.

    It is obvious you are here to throw poo at Armando….whatever else you may do.

    I don’t want you to throw poo on my blog. If I thought you could control yourself, control your obsession with Armando, I would consider letting you stay.

    I don’t think you can.

    Despite all YOUR claims to moral superiority throughout the blogosphere, I have watched you lose it on several occasions.

    Bringing your baggage with Armando sux. Posting on the personal life of anyone on a blog, sux.

    Tell me why it will be different this time, convince me….or adios.

  7. sans Wes Clark hater.  I just can never have everything I want damn it but happy bday.

    • coyote on September 17, 2007 at 23:49

    Illegitimi non carborundum!

    • pfiore8 on September 18, 2007 at 00:34

    to have the heft of half and century and then some under one’s belt

    i  kind of like it myself.

    happy birthday, ms. d

  8. I’ll blow out a candle in your honor

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