My year of 35 is over, I’m turning 36 tomorrow. It was a good year— lots of happy memories made and no major disasters, except I’d like my elbow to return to normal. But what can you do? I’ll admit the grey hair count is up since I started this blog, but I’m still not dying my hair. Take that mother nature! I just keep wiping mascara to cover the greys. And ignoring those few and far between strands works just as well.
I share my July 28th birthday with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (she was born on July 28, 1929). She summed it up beautifully when she said:
“I have been through a lot and I have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments as well. I have come to the conclusion that we must not expect too much from life. We must give to life at least as much as we receive from it. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love and happiness are all interwoven into one single indescribable whole that is called LIFE. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And, perhaps, there is no need to do so either."
—Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
In college I lived in an all women co-op my sophomore year. One of the older students photocopied Jackie’s quotation and slipped it into each of our mailboxes. I liked it so much that I brought it home with me to read it to my father. He too liked it and taped it up on a wall in our kitchen. Jackie’s quote still hangs in our kitchen to this day with Dad’s neat, all caps, block print reading “circa 1995” written below the typed text in black felt tip marker that’s now faded to brown because of the scorching Albuquerque sun. I guess you could say that quote became our family motto. It’s a good one if you ask me.
And with that I’ll bid you adieu. Happy Birthday to all my fellow July 28thers out there and to all the other Leos! Isn’t it fun being a fire sign?
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