I celebrated by working late and then coming home to a warm welcome from the family. Talked to my mommy & daddy, who sang happy birthday to me over the phone and had some pecan pie cookie bars that the kids made me instead of cake.

All in all...a good b'day. Made all the more special by warm wishes from people that care. Thank you all.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.