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What Is It About Birthdays?
This year, mine was a Friday the 13th, full moon kinda day.
So, if I’m not powerful now, when can I be? I intend to harvest every ray of sunshine, every moonlit pathway, and every inner goddess power I have. Because birthdays are my New Years’ Days. You may want to consider your own special day to be the time you renew and restart, too.
What better time to look at the past year and reflect? What did I do this year that worked? What didn’t serve me or others so well? What do I want to do differently? What do I want to add?
This year, I’m adding Italy.
It’s been a lifelong dream to go there, for the art (I cried when I saw a Michelangelo sculpture in the Louve), the people, the food and the wine. I had planned on celebrating one of the “ending in zero” birthdays there, but that hasn’t happened. So here I go, on an odd year, fulfilling a dream.
I will be traveling alone, with all that entails. I get to make all the decisions and plans. On the downside, I have to make all the decisions and plans. And right now, I don’t have reservations for a place to stay for the last four nights. Which wouldn’t be a big deal were I in my twenties or even thirties and backpacking, checking into hostels.
