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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And incidentally: happy birthday to [info]bdunbar

Thank you very much! And to you, as well.

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Sunset, Okinawa Japan. Out for a stroll by the water I witnessed (from a distance) a baptism. A lay preacher had taken some of his flock into the surf and was dunking and baptism, pray aloud .... the time of the day, the sun slanting across the ocean as it set in the west ... it was memorable.

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I dare say that that image must have meant more to someone who belongs in the American Protestant tradition - I would have had trouble even understanding what was going on. But that is one of the great things about this Livejournal business - getting to understand how others think and imagine. Thanks for your memory!