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Birthday gifts

There is something about birthdays that show up with zeroes at the end, kind of ominous. Another decade gone. And no matter how much one intellectually dismisses the thought around numbers, I found myself buying into the collective notoriety of life after 60 — the notion that I was running out of time, energy, ideas, life, what have you. Took a few days of deep contemplation to get over that.

When the birthday did show up it was all about the joy and fun. Though I joked that the gifts family and friends sent were all perishable in nature — flowers, wine, fruit and nuts, chocolate — (who knows how long she’ll last … or the wine and chocolates will certainly do her in!!), they came in plenty and with great love.

Now as the days go by a wonderful sense of serenity descends upon me. It feels great to be sixty. I feel good. I certainly have a greater sense of who I am than I did at 50. The running and chasing around to accomplish great things in life have sobered. It is easier to take a view ‘if it is not fun, I am not doing it’. Nice to know that no one else’s life will be critically impacted by my choices. Such a relief to let go of those codependencies. Each relationship is precious and heartwarming. None exist that is not welcome.

And a wonderful gentle relationship with the body seems to unfold. No longer do I need to make great demands of it — prove to myself and others that it is youthful or strong. Easier to let those notions go and instead shower it with gratitude that it serves me well. With acceptance its resilience and flexibilty grows and it will surprise me on a yoga morning by effortlessly assuming some complicated pose, or by dancing the tango without a break for hours. So I listen to it, take care of it and treat it well. It is the only one I have and will surely serveme another 30 years.

As I said earlier, turning sixty is highly recommended.

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