something symbolic

At the risk of being more shameless than I already am, I'm going to rant a bit. With any luck, the excess of the rant will be kept to a minimum and refrain from trespassing.

I'm turning 32 tomorrow. Woo hoo. Every year for the past several I've done something symbolic to reign in the year. Like what? Well, not anything huge. One year I went hiking because I felt it might invoke my love of nature and exercise more grandly for the year. Another, I bought myself a really overstated hat, as in, 'wearing a new hat,' in attempt to take the figurative to the literal. Yet another I took myself to my favorite cafe haus and purged my brain of the previous years nonsense on paper. Last year I aced a Psych test, ate a delicious venison steak and drank wine afterwards - in short I worked hard and got doubly rewarded. I find in many ways that did filter into this past year.

I've noticed over the years that most people just don't get this. At all. What do you mean by that? Or just dead air, move onto something more frivolous and quickly. But that's the point! The entire reason for it is really just an annual reminder and hat tip to myself about who I am as a person. Not frivolous, a true lover of meaning, coincidence and purpose in life. And it seems to me that it makes sense to intentionally honor that as my function of having been born.

I guess I'm saying shamelessly, Happy Birthday to me ;) I've said it before and I'll say it again. There's magic in the ordinary if you allow your intuition to notice it.

That's all I have to say right now.