Birthday dinner

Sue is 77 today, and we had a laid-back, easy celebration. Cristina gave us gift cards to a spa, and we both got massages. We had a simple lunch at my house and an ice cream cone, played around with my new piano, and then enjoyed a sushi dinner. 

For three months each year, we are the same age. 

Truth flows from us,
or so we think, only
to be thrown back
as a surf of love.

Ask the aging painter
with a brush taped to his
crippled hand--wanting,
needing to praise it all
one more time.

--Mark Nepo.