Forty-five

Thanks for the birthday wishes.

Getting a card made by plasticsturgeon precisely on my birthday is a whole party in itself. Intriguing -- those boxes -- and beautiful.

Other birthday highlights:

• A warm, sweet dinner with friends on Saturday.


• Finding a gift bag on my front step this morning, with tea and cheese and cookies and brussel sprouts, and a note calling me a genuis. Not something to get used to, but lovely on a birthday.


• Being popular at the hardware store for the first time ever. Okay, actually, outside the store by the fence unlocking the trike related. Men wanted to talk to me about the bike's "transmission" and how good it would be to take fishing.


• Belting out (badly, but with spirit), "Broadway Baby" as I hit the bike path.


• Talking with people I love on the phone.


• Writing with S. at the library, and dinner at Joe's.


The beautiful and very perishable -- not to be taken for granted, not at all certain to last -- routines of doing work I love.