Ozark Oddments: Happy Birthday Sissy Poo

Monday, March 22, 2010

Happy Birthday Sissy Poo

As I sit to write this, it is goin on 4:00 AM where my sister lives, and I hope she is sound asleep in bed next to her husband. Before too long, though, she will wake to begin her day as a daughter, wife, mother, and school librarian. And today she becomes another year older.

Thinking back over the years that we were together as sisters at home with the rest of the family, I can only remember getting angry at her once. It happened when she was about 5 years old and I was about 14 and she got into my nail polish -- or maybe it was my bottle of Evening in Paris perfume -- which was sitting on my dresser.

I will not be there to celebrate this special day with her. I wish I could be. I love her. She is my best forever friend.

2 comments:

Oklahoma Granny said...: Happy Birthday to your sister! I'm so sorry you can't be with her on her birthday.; 9:26 AM
Lil Sis said...: Thanks a bunch, sis... I do believe it was the Evening in Paris perfume that I got into. Boy, did that smell good. :>) Sorry I spilled it - it had a tricky cap.

I miss you, too...; 10:36 AM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"