What I want on my birthday (swunked from sartorias - never let a good idea go to waste)

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So, tomorrow I turn 46.

Here is my wish, for anyone dropping by, who has a few extra seconds: you share with me some special memory. This was sartorias' suggestion, which I cannot improve upon: I know how busy people are. It doesn't have to be long. One good thing about having a brain wired for image is that the briefest reference to, say, "The day i saw a triple rainbow" brings immediately to mind the day when I was ten that I saw a triple rainbow. There I am on my bike, riding downhill as fast as I can because the biggest rainbow ends, so clearly, right where Linda C lives, at the bottom of the hill below school, where two streets converge...the light is silvery-gray, and smells of wet pavement and grass, there are three levels of clouds and all of them ragged. How I loved the magic of that day--even if the end of the rainbow kept moving. But somehow it was better to never find the end.

And incidentally: happy birthday to bdunbar and to the lovely purple_mirie!

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I shared this with Susanwrites, but I'm sharing it with you. I've always had insomnia (ahem! Look at mt timestamp_), where I'd waken in the middle of the night and lie there thinking, then fall asleep again. This one time I was about eight, and for the first time, I thought about learning. As I stared up at the white part of the ceiling with the fake plaster festoons and the pink walls, dimly lit by reflection from the street lamp in front of the neighbor's, I saw myself crouched down inside a clay cave. Every new thing I learned was like a gouge with my fingernails in the wall of the cave. The side walls were for learning how to do things. But above me was learning about the world, the universe, and beyond. I thought, if I just gouge out enough clay--learn enough things--some day I will break through to the sky, and beyond the sky, because I will know everything and be wise.

Well, I was eight. *wry grin*

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That's quite young to be getting Platonic images. Thank you.