57 Candles

This is what 57 looks like on fire:

"How long the road is. But, for all the time

the journey has already taken, how you have needed

every second of it in order to learn what

the road passes by."

-Dag Hammarskjold, Markings

ain't it the truth!

if you are lucky enough to have a birthday this year,

light all the freakin' candles!

then give thanks for each and every one.

and as you pull them from the cake,

recall something from each year.

and whether it's a good memory or not, give thanks.

for all of it has brought you to who you are at this moment,

a beautiful, loved, human being created in God's image.
and what could be better than that?