If I started out without being very lithe and blithe and graceful—just ask my dance teacher from when I was in second grade—there’s little hope I would suddenly have become any more so in the years since unless I had been working assiduously to defeat my cloddish nature. But I haven’t. Your first clue, of course, should be that word “working,” as you all know so perfectly well that I am opposed to, if not utterly incapable of, being a worker bee and exerting energy. That is neither new nor likely to change radically with the passage of further years, in which I will naturally become more ossified and less willing and able to assimilate new knowledge, less flexible and worlds slower in my reflexes.
What I do have in my favor as I age is an ever-growing ego and ever-shrinking ability to be embarrassed by my evident weakness and silliness and fallibility. So as I go skipping my way through yet another birthday, I am not much troubled by my actually achieving this advance in age by, you know, getting older. As it’s always been said, it sure beats the alternative. And there really are a lot of great things about aging and the passage of time that tend to offset the cost.
So don’t mind me if I stumble and fumble around, making quite the fool of myself as usual and hardly managing to avoid absolute implosion. The occasional face plant isn’t nearly so hard to take as not being alive enough to fall on my kisser once in a while. Making plenty of mistakes and missteps keeps me interested in not only how to avoid the same pratfalls the next time or two around but also in how to enjoy the goofy glories of just being an extra in life’s always grand action. And you never know when I might manage a real, if awkward, pirouette or plié before collapsing in creaking and squeaking and laughter. Keep your eyes peeled.
Art-Colored Glasses 
Hope you have the happiest of birthdays, Kathryn! Have fun pirouetting and plié-ing, or taking plenty of naps if you like! 🙂 XO ❤
It’s been grand and groovy from end to end, and now I’d better hit the hay or be too sleepy altogether on concert day. 🙂
xoxo
Happy Birthday, Kath!!! I hope it’s an awesome, relaxing, fun and joyful day for you! xoxo D.
Thank you, Desi, it’s been fabulous!!
❤
Kath
Happy Birthday dear Kathryn, and may you stay young at heart for ever…..and may your creative juices continue to flow so beautifully:)xxx
Thank you, Janet: when fueled by such kind words, how can I help but continue and rejoice!!!
xoxo
Happy, happy birthday!!! 😀
Many thanks, Tig, and may you and Heather have a beautiful time throughout December and all of its glories!
😀
xo
I hope you’ve enjoyed your birthday, Kathryn, and that the year before you is wonderful.
Cent’anni!
Mille grazie, fratello! 😀
I’m sure that moving from day to day in an un-frantic, good humoured way will result in a long and happy life! Happy birthday and many more of ’em!
Christine
Many thanks, Christine. Sounds like a delightful plan to me! 😉
xoxo
Happy belated, my dear Kath. The drawings are simply amAzing.
*awe*
The MoVement and the details…
Thank you, my sweet! I’m glad you liked the dancing and the, uh, inverted planking! 😉
xoxo