Happy Birthday from Rebecca

Happy 81st Birthday
... butter cream icing on a fudge chocolate cake ...

Well.... I think I probably AM the first one up today, so know that I could phone to wish dad a happy birthday, but though it is a reasonable 12:30 lunch time here, perhaps 5:30 am is a bit too early to tell someone to get moving on enjoying every hour in this birthday day?

I will start with the blog version of the birthday wishes.

Dad, I took Alex off to see Shiver, a play, the other night that had a plus 14 age warning on it (not sure if that is for the folks over or under 14... that is, WHO really needs the warning).

Basically, there was a beheading, a kid bashing another kid's head in with a rock, a woman having sex with her son's friends, the closeted dad who eventually kills himself.

I was thinking it might have been a bit too much (for ME, not for Alex... he was not bothered by the substance, only by the FACT of having to go to see a play), but then I remembered one of the greatest gifts you gave me: the notion that the world is full of ideas and images, and that a person might as well be exposed to those ideas alongside their parents.

Yes.... I am grateful that you sat down with us to watch “I, Claudius” on TV when we were kids!

Thank you for the gift of opening me up to a world of questions, instead of only a world of answers. ... and of encouraging me to look for the next question behind every provisional answer. The best gift of all!

Happy birthday to you!

R