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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:53 PM Apr 2017

My Birthday Letter to the Editor

I write letters to the editor...lots of letters for Progressive DEMS.....I chose HOPE for this one. With all the posts of us blaming each other today, please to enjoy mine. p.s. Danstage is the UW spring recital. My sister Julliard ballerina is the chair of Dance Dept.


In the movie of my life it was my Birthday. I walked to the gym taking my shortcut past the Homeless Shelter and encountered a guy in sandals having a smoke. 24 degrees. I said, "The birds sound happy, don't they?" He, "They sure do and it's going to be a great day." My brother. I could travel to Africa and bury myself in mud and he'd still be my brother. Courage is risking one's cliches.

At the market an Asian gentleman purchased six packages of chicken paws. I followed him to the counter and inquired, "Might I ask what you do with those?" Flashing me a smile with wings on it, he launched into a story explaining how his wife( he showed me her picture) prepared them, gave me his address and invited me over to partake.

Later I attended Danstage. In "Sounding Off" magnificent dancers tapped: "How is any one person's experience perceived by others? How do we negotiate differing points of view? When is it time to speak up?" These interactions give me back the key to my personality. Our individuality is all we have. Some barter it for security, others repress it for the "betterment of society". But blessed is the one who nurtures and rides it in with grace, love and wit from one peculiar station to the next peculiar station.

Before bed, I caught the last 20 minutes of 'The Doors". Jim Morrison died at 27. I am now old enough to be 27 year old Jim's grandmother. Yikes !!

How do you make the magic of youth stay? Tell it you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if it stays, it can have half. It will stay. Aging can be impatient and thoughtless, barging into your room when you're right in the middle of something and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots. And when the brain turns the juice off, the curtain falls, show's over, no waiting up for the reviews.

Now, I know we're better people than we manifested in 2016. May we find ourselves again and find each other May we learn to detect each other's pain before it clots into anger. May we recall from history that no country is too great and sophisticated to lose its mind. May we protect this republic from those who would set us UNfree. May we honor all, from the street to the chalkboard to the Assembly House. May we realize our goodness sets the limits of our greatness. Resist becoming errant members of a selfish, suspicious and fragmented society. Be the foundation of a new one. And, may we ALL, stay forever young.

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My Birthday Letter to the Editor (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Apr 2017 OP
I wish it were your birthday! This is a wonderful letter...may they choose to print it. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2017 #1
Birthday was last Friday jodymarie aimee Apr 2017 #2
Belated happy birthday and thank you for such wonderful writing..n/t monmouth4 Apr 2017 #3
I'm being selfish Applan Apr 2017 #4
Very nice! mcar Apr 2017 #5
 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
2. Birthday was last Friday
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 05:08 PM
Apr 2017

letter will be in next Friday, I have to wait 30 days from last one. I am kinda famous here !!

Applan

(693 posts)
4. I'm being selfish
Sat Apr 15, 2017, 05:50 PM
Apr 2017

But please give DU more of your writing. This really made my day (and almost made me cry)!

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