🇲🇽 Ensenada - Baja - Dia de Cumpleaños - 06.24.2024
Thank you times ten my friends for all of the kind birthday wishes… and taking that moment of time that means the world to me. This is what 57 looks like… and I hope the universe will honor me with another day on planet earth, or maybe ten more days, or ten times ten days… and I do have an application out to extend my time here to 10,000 days.
There is no other previous incantation of me that could possibly argue that this current ‘self’ is the best version to date. And that makes my day… everyday. And with those 10,000 days… I have 10,000 places I want to see, 10,000 things I want to do, 10,000 conversations I want have… and endless amounts of tacos I’d like to try.
I do wake up with a sore body on most days. I’m beginning to question my short term memory and forget where my glasses are when they’re on my face. I believe the ‘intelligent design’ theory has a hiccup in that I have hair disappearing from areas of my body and other hair growning fast, thick and plentiful in places that make no sense. What hell?!?
Even with more achey groans… I’ll pick this age, this version, above all others and hope I can continue to grow as a human being. These days I am finding myself with an immense amount of ambition… but in no particular rush. I love that equation. Now… it’s lunch time… time for more life… taco life.
Thank you friends for being so close when I’m often so far away…
Here’s a portion of a piece by Paul Weinfield that sums up my thoughts for the day:
“…In the real hero’s journey, the dragon slays YOU. Much to your surprise, you couldn’t make that marriage work. Much to your surprise, you turned forty with no kids, no house, and no prospects. Much to your surprise, the world didn’t want the gifts you proudly offered it.
If you are foolish, this is where you will abort the journey and start another, and another, abusing your heart over and over for the brief illusion of winning.
But if you are wise, you will let yourself be shattered, and return to the village, humbled, but with a newfound sense that you don’t have to identify with the part of you that needs to win, needs to be recognized, needs to know. This is where your transcendent life begins.
So embrace humility in everything. Life isn’t out to get you, nor are your struggles your fault.
Every defeat is just an angel, tugging at your sleeve, telling you that you don’t have to keep banging your head against the wall.
Leave that striver there, trapped in his lonely ambitions. Just walk away, and life in its vastness will embrace you.”
—Paul Weinfield
