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Originally posted by bwt1213 View PostToday is my birthday (75th). Anyone else have a birthday today?
Originally posted by floppers View PostHappy Birthday! It's not my birthday today, but I have one every year. Hope it's a goodun!
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Yes, this year was the 76th. But you have to consider how it all started: 1946, on Friday the 13th of December, in Ishpeming, during a snowstorm, a half-hour before midnight. How could that possibly be improved on? Yes, I know every one of you can tell me how yours at least matched that. Well, Happy Birthday to you all, then! (Even if today is your unbirthday.)
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Originally posted by bwt1213 View PostYes, this year was the 76th. But you have to consider how it all started: 1946, on Friday the 13th of December, in Ishpeming, during a snowstorm, a half-hour before midnight. How could that possibly be improved on? Yes, I know every one of you can tell me how yours at least matched that. Well, Happy Birthday to you all, then! (Even if today is your unbirthday.)
Hey curious, since you were born @ 11:30pm, do you notice you tend to begin activities or experiences @ the end of a cycle? I was born @ 7:35p & that's been my experience, course my time still allowed a little of the end to continue, yours seems it would soon be over.
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Originally posted by 2cute View Post
Thanks.
Hey curious, since you were born @ 11:30pm, do you notice you tend to begin activities or experiences @ the end of a cycle? I was born @ 7:35p & that's been my experience, course my time still allowed a little of the end to continue, yours seems it would soon be over.
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Originally posted by Brisul View Post
Happy birthday! Mine is tomorrow...48.
I wish no less for the rest of you reading this. I can say, for my last dog (Copper), that you should live with joy for the day every day of your life. He did, and now he is gone. I cannot have another; I'm not well enough nor is my wife. But we've had nine rescue dogs and did our best by all of them. We have nine memories to carry and we are the richer for it. And every one of those dogs lived in apparent happiness right up to the end. I hope I do the same. It's a life's lesson, for sure.
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Originally posted by bwt1213 View Post
You're younger than both my daughters. I remember being 48. Enjoy it; you're still young. There were and are people playing professional sports (well) at your age or older, and you can still tell yourself that perhaps you could, too. Gordie Howe (hockey), Satchel Page (baseball), George Blanda (football). But the oldest NBA player was Nat Hickey, who played until he was two days short of his 46th birthday. And then there's Kazuyoshi "King Kazu" Miura, who is still playing at age 55 in the top Japanese soccer league. I will not even bother to mention the people who have won distinctions in academic, artistic, and literary pursuits at older ages, nor those who have excelled in engineering and technology. To me, it feels as if you have your whole life before you. As do we all. May you live a long and happy life, and when you are very old let a cure for age and death be found so you can be happy for longer.
I wish no less for the rest of you reading this. I can say, for my last dog (Copper), that you should live with joy for the day every day of your life. He did, and now he is gone. I cannot have another; I'm not well enough nor is my wife. But we've had nine rescue dogs and did our best by all of them. We have nine memories to carry and we are the richer for it. And every one of those dogs lived in apparent happiness right up to the end. I hope I do the same. It's a life's lesson, for sure.
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