Wish Jamie a birthday full of Health, Romance and Poetry on July 31st

Here’s a hand-picked, freshly-disinterred zombie cake. Eat it before it eats you!

I’m sorry I’m late to the party, but I hope you had a wonderful birthday on July 31st. That’s the same day my youngest brother was born.

I bless you in your health, relationships and writing. May you always enjoy these things in your life.

Happy Belated Birthday, Jamie!!!

I’m so sorry it’s so late, but know I was thinking about you on the 31st and wishing you well then too. I really hope it was a wonderful day for you, you’re a great presence here on 43, thank you for that.

(hugs)

I know that I’m really, really late with this wish,
but please know that it’s still sincere.
I hope that your special day was super great
and that you have a fantastic year!

and sorry I’m late but you know best intentions mixed with personal crises will screw everything up…..I hope your day was great, and I am sending happy wishes your way…..

Hope you had a great day!

but I hope you had a wonderful birthday.

Jamie,

I hope you had a truly enjoyable birthday. I wish you many more happy ones. :o)

So sorry, sweetness, to miss the day. I haven’t been able to be around here much. Truth is, I have been working on a poem for you, but as life would have it, it’s not finished yet. Hopefully that’s OK. After all, neither are you. I love that you view yourself as a work as progress. You are amazing. And wonderful.

Hope your day was happy, and the year to come filled with all that you wish.

Sorry I’m late to the party. I’m so glad you had a happy day yesterday, and I’m hoping you’ll have a great year to come filled with health, romance, poetry, and other good things.

I remember first really “noticing” you when I commented on the first entry that you made last October under your goal “Stop being so shy around women” (which you have since marked “Worth Doing”). You weren’t “Proud to be Poetry Boy” back then. If I remember right, you were Jamie, the Buckeye fan. This morning, I checked back through your older entries, and it looks like most of those were quotations, which generated a few cheers and even fewer comments. But after that point, you were writing longer and more varied entries, and “conversing” with and being cheered by more and more different people.

And lately, most of your entries generate at least 30-40 comments each, and your entry here, asking for help with a crazy female admirer, generated an amazing 319 comments! My goodness, what a change!

Reflecting on that amazing change brought to mind a little poem that I like. So here it is for you, in honor of all your progress in this past year, and all your new friendships here on 43-Things, and all the good things that I suspect are in store for you in the future. Happy Birthday, and many happy returns!

YOUR WORLD by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side.

But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity.

I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!