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

[fpb]

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!

Comments

[cheyinka]

When I first met the man who is now my husband, it was at the airport, and since it was before 9/11, people could wait for arriving passengers right at the gate. So there I was, my dad looming ominously behind me, when I saw a young man who approximately matched the description I'd been given, wearing a t-shirt from the game we played, walking out into the waiting area.

He saw me (matching the picture I'd sent him in the mail, I assume), wearing a matching t-shirt, and grinned at me in a way that lit up his whole face. And then walked on over and greeted me by my character name. :)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

And may it last for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, with God's blessing and my best wishes, till death do you part. Thank you.