Time to do this again

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Tomorrow is my 48th birthday. Two years ago I posted this request, and I think the time has come to repeat it:

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.

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Walking through a zoo with my daughter, then two: I was looking, I told her, for my cow. Each exhibit we came to, I began with, "Is that my cow? It says/has X. It is not my cow. Where is my cow?" She responded "No" and "I don't know" happily to each question, and laughed at the animals.