A mix of iPhone (thanks, A, for capturing the moment!) and digital SLR photos from the weekend, in which my sweet B surprised me with an (early) birthday party and I cried like a baby while shaking and saying things like "this makes my spirit feel so big!!"....(which it did. so, so big). Needless to say, I am incredibly grateful for all of my west coast friends helping B pull off this thoughtful little trick. I was so sad to think we weren't going to spend any birthday time together (I may have even been giving him a bit of a guilt trip, lately...) and this was just above and beyond anything I could have hoped for. Sometimes I'm not the best at "receiving" (I even said that to some of the gals on Saturday; I'm trying so hard just to receive right now) but I did my best to simply soak in all of the love and birthday wishes that were generously being poured on me. Frankly, when I moved here 4 years ago, I never imagined building a community...a family...like the one I have in this city by the Bay. This colorful mix of folks full of life and adventure has come to mean more to me than I can possibly explain and I am so thankful to have been given such a blessed send off into my 29th lap around the sun. "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart." -Brene Brown Cheers to the exchange; to giving and receiving, and to the open-heart friends who make it all possible. In Gratitude, Trish
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Schmaubs
6/18/2013 05:53:58 am
You're the prettiest trying-not-to-sob-er ever!
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Sheryl
6/20/2013 03:30:57 am
It would have been lovely to meet you at the party, Trish, but I was doing double duty holding down the Kim-homefront and seeing my hubs from whom I'd been separated for three days (while tending my darling "kneedy" Kimbo).
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