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OftenBen  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 30, 2016

It's another holiday made up to sell cards fake or....?





user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

why does anyone give a damn when they were born

lil  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think one should celebrate one's self. Walt Whitman style. He was counting birthdays:

    I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

    And what I assume you shall assume,

    For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

    I loafe and invite my soul,

    I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

    My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,

    Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,

    I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,

    Hoping to cease not till death.

yes yes, celebrate yourself. It can be on your birthday or any other day of your choosing. (My brother's day was too close to xmas, so he celebrates it in June every year, six months later.)

user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think one should celebrate one's self

I believe I do this every day, with the reading books and writing journals and doing pull-ups. In the last 365 days, the ones with special significance - days spent with old friends. days spent with grandparents. days spent reading one or two of the books that stand out for the year. birthday...? don't remember it.

lil  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

pm me your b'day flags. I'll send another prezzie - but not one that requires reading. Maybe just a finger puppet galen - I will one day have a whole handful.

galen  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You got the one I sent you, right?

lil  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely. I play with it all the time. Working on getting a whole fistfull. I've been digging up my finger dinosaurs.

galen  ·  2945 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yay!

user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

lil! it's the 14th of november. i don't celebrate. but i certainly love mail in all forms, on any day. (yesterday i got a coupon for a free burrito from chipotle apropos of nothing?!)

OftenBen  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Get the burrito bowl, not the burrito. You get more food that way.

user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

oh, of course. burrito bowl, tortilla on the side, free veggies. two full meals for me, lately, since I've stopped eating.

user-inactivated  ·  2946 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe you just never had a good birthday.