Yeah it almost my birthday and for some reason this year I’m actually taking notice.  I am turning thirty five tomorrow and I feel different.  I not sure what it is but in the last couple years I have been changing.  I’m still the same person only different.  Maybe it’s the three weeks in Ethiopia?  Maybe it’s that I now have five children?  Maybe my view of the word is changed.  Maybe it the new age?  As I think about this I realize it’s that I’m at peace with who I am.  Ok I may have some strengths and a whole lot of weaknesses, but it’s ok and I am more aware of who I am.  I think before I was afraid to find out.  It’s kind of like finding out your and artist.  Well now that you know you at least have a direction.  You may not be the best artist, but at least you now know.  That is in a small way how I feel.

I feel freer to live.  More open to others.  There is a new level of passion in areas I thought were dry.  So yeah I’m thirty five, but I’m going to celebrate this gift called life.