15,705 - LJ Idol Season 10, Week 11

Mar 10, 2017 12:04

As I write this, I have lived through 15,705 sunrises and 15,705 sunsets.  Many of those changes from night to day have found me sleeping.  Many of the movements from day to night have found me too busy to marvel in the subtle changes in color that paint the sky.  The blue hour, as it is known, when the sky is awash in various hues of bue, often ( Read more... )

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halfshellvenus March 11 2017, 07:37:13 UTC
Happy upcoming birthday! I hope you and your family enjoy it, with a minimum of aggravation and thwarting.

The older I get and the faster the birthdays come, the more I want them to be nice days rather than putting in a lot of effort to make them something more. The attempt to "observe" something to make it memorable really can influence the outcome of how much you actually enjoy it.

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eternal_ot March 11 2017, 13:29:13 UTC
Wish you many many happy returns of the day! Hope you have a wonderful year ahead :) This was a nice take on the prompt. Enjoy your time!

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rayaso March 11 2017, 15:46:12 UTC
Happy birthday! May you have many more blue hours. There is a lot of wisdom in ". . . if I'm trying to savor the moments, I'm not living in them. " This was an excellent entry. I loved the memories, and that sounds like a horrendous accident.

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alycewilson March 11 2017, 19:37:51 UTC
Happy birthday! You've got it right: appreciate the days you have, rather than trying to force something meaningful.

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penpusher March 11 2017, 22:33:55 UTC
Good wishes for great things - and for remembering all the good and forgetting all the bad.

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