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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Once on a gorgeous summer day, a single cloud stretched from horizon to horizon - the wind had striated most of it, making it look like a long feather hanging in the sky.

An incredibly busy lunchtime, with queues at the post office stretching out the door. The staff were working like dogs, and to my surprise I was at the counter within 10 minutes. While the harassed woman behind the counter dealt with my parcel, I casually mentioned how good a job they were doing, and how I'd expected to be in the queue twice as long:
years dropped away from her, and she was almost floating on air as she moved; a strange smile on her face. I'd never before realised just how much difference a simple genuine compliment can make.

Hopefully I will update my own journal shortly - as I have other memories to talk about.

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I had the same experience, at about fourteen, with our local newsstand owner, whom I had never seen smile until I casually wished him a Happy Christmas. It has always been a principle with me, since, never to let the opportunity to praise someone or say a good word go untaken.

Thank you.