“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”

  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~

Happy Birthday Jesse, 33 yrs old today.
Giving birth to you is still the 'most' amazing experience of my entire lifetime.

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“If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.”

 ~ Carl Perkins~

Image by Thomas Gorman

Two Medicine Valley Trail (Running Eagle Falls)

- Glacier National Park, Montana

Area map: www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/upload/Two-Medicine.pdf

Today is my daughters birthday.  Montana-Star is 25 years old today.  Happy Birthday my darling girl.  She is so beautiful.  I love her and miss her every day so much it hurts my head.  I just crave to see Montana's face and hear her voice.  Its fitting to post an image of  a river in the State of Montana for my Montana with this quote today.
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It's okay to step away from someone long term, beat your own drum. Feel securer in your own skin.

~ Vera Blue ~

Image : Eastern Rosella in the Birch Tree

Just so you as the reader knows, I was always a bird in some form or another.  From a very young age I had the nickname 'sparrow'.  It was given to me by Jack (Cussen) whom I called daddy. I apparently had the skinniest legs he had seen in years and I didn't eat very much, he said I ate crumbs.  Not much has changed. 

Combining these facts and my love of everything to do with birds, then I should know birds don't keep their young around for the rest of their lives.   They just don't do that sort of thing.  The mother bird probably never sees her chicks again in her life.   She encourages the fledglings to fly off and have their own lives. She encourages independence and personal choice.

My over zealous examination of the situation where my grown up children are involved pegs it as very bird like to be at a distance and not involve oneself in the fray of their life choices.

Today is the 26th February and one of my daughters celebrates her 27th birthday today.  I wish her well in the coming year and I wish her happiness and fairness.

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