“It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free.”
~John O'Donohue
So rich, so joyous, so
undeserved, this latter-day life of mine. Each day a bonus. When,
in 2019, we celebrated my 80th birthday I wanted it to be
a very special day. After 10 years with cancer I then had little
expectation that I would still be among you five years later. (And by now, my 85th birthday today, I'm well past my use-by date!)
So today I'll be having a big celebration, though you won't see much evidence of it. First and foremost among my guests is my precious first lady, Liz, who has been such a tremendous loving support through our life together - espcially over the last 15 years. Then, as well as loved ones, present and past, my wise-ones, too many to mention will be arriving in the coaches of my mind. They'll fill the secret cave of my heart with gifts of remembrance: peace, love and joy.
Thank you all for being with me on this gentle day.
May all that you need, all that you need, be enabled within you and for you.
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