Awwwwwww you guys!!

I was just telling someone that historically, I never really paid all that much attention to my birthday. It wasn't that I didn't care or dreaded it, but to me...well, it was just another day. The past two years have been very different, and a great deal of credit belongs to everyone here at Pixies. (Not just because I've seen you all naked!) Work has been pulling me away recently but the fight to get here at least once a day is one that I'll never get tired of. You are all very much a part of my life and "inner circle", and I hope my posts and words somehow reflect that.

So thank you for the thoughts, the nurse, the sheep and the manly reach-around.

And thank you for your interactions all year long.

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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.