Low Key Birthdays, Low Energy Tuesdays

Ah, Tuesday.  For some working folks, Monday is the hardest day.  For me, it's Tuesday.  On Tuesday, the week feels endless, and not in a good way, not in a full of possibilities way.  Let me record some bits and pieces, which is all I feel capable of doing this morning.

--My actual birthday was very low key, but that was O.K., because we did some celebrating on Sunday.  It would have been O.K. even if we hadn't celebrated on Sunday.

--We often have low key birthdays at our house.  The wide variety of ways that people celebrate birthdays for grown ups intrigues me.

--I woke up thinking about the trip to France that I took with my parents during the summer I turned 40.  I have been so glad that I did that.  It was great to travel with them and hear stories of our first days together.  I was born on an Air Force Base in France, and I would never have been able to find that base, had I been travelling alone.

--I tend to assume that I'll always have time to travel at some later point, whether by myself or with others.  It's been sobering to think on the last 10 years, how much has changed, how my travelling days may be coming to an end in the not-too-distant future.

--But my walking days aren't over--let me lace up my shoes and see what I can do.