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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2016-10-09 02:32 pm
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If you listen, it will lead you home

It is autumn and raining. I am thirty-five years old. I woke with one cat on my feet and my husband beside me and another cat on the far side of him. The present from my parents on the end of the bed was the box set of Pioneers of African-American Cinema, which I am so much looking forward to. [personal profile] yhlee has sent me a year's worth of mermaids, currently propped on top of the glass-fronted cabinet while we find them frames. The fragile things are slowly being unpacked. There are plans for dinner and cake. Usually, my mother says, she wishes people sunny days for their birthday, but this rain is probably keeping Rosabella—the salmon-pink, late-blooming dogwood who grows in the side yard of my parents' house; she is eight years younger than I am—alive. She's right that I consider that a better gift than sun. I will have to find out which character I am measuring this year by.
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davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)

[personal profile] davidgillon 2016-10-09 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!
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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2016-10-09 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, and happy autumnal weather!
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2016-10-09 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Sandman raven (credit: rilina))

[personal profile] yhlee 2016-10-09 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] umadoshi 2016-10-10 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I hope it was an excellent birthday! *hugs*
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[personal profile] cyphomandra 2016-10-11 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Happy (belated!) birthday!!
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[personal profile] thawrecka 2016-10-13 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you had a happy birthday. It sounds like it was lovely.

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2016-10-09 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Many happy returns of the day!

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2016-10-09 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!

and to quote a tshirt, Godzilla is my Patronus. (and the new Godzilla movie starts on Tuesday here)
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2016-10-09 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2016-10-09 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! May this year bring rain to your roots, and a glorious blooming!

Nine
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[personal profile] pameladean 2016-10-09 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, and many returns even happier, to you.

P.

[identity profile] red-queen.livejournal.com 2016-10-10 03:35 am (UTC)(link)

A joyous and celebrated birthday to you!

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2016-10-10 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
. . . how the hell are you a year younger than I am. My brain cannot encompass this -- not that I think of you as old in any sense, but rather that from the start I've admired your intellect and your work, and I'm not yet old enough to have really stopped assuming that people I admire in such fashion are at least a little bit older than me.

Uh. Anyway. Happy birthday! I very much envy you the cats and the gift of rain.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2016-10-10 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hippo birdies! two ewes! and all the Sandra Boynton books in the world!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2016-10-10 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
A year of mermaids sounds beautiful. Each day, a different mermaid. Did [livejournal.com profile] yhlee draw them all?

PS: Happy birthday!
Edited 2016-10-10 22:04 (UTC)
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