Happy Birthday, Uncle Jordan!

Ira is keeping the condiments safe until your return!  We love and miss you.  Ben, Lisa, Rachel and the Little Wolf

Twenty Seven

“The "heart of wisdom" can be ours if we attune ourselves to the divinely created rhythm of the universe which carries each of us through our lives.”

—Arnold S. Task

Birthday Cake

“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”
― Gail Caldwell

Birthday Girl

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello

This Guy is Five!

“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God."  –Brennan Manning

Sleepy

"To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain."
— Wendell Berry

9lbs 4ounces

"Like the water
of a deep stream,
love is always too much.
We did not make it.
Though we drink till we burst,
we cannot have it all,
or want it all.
In its abundance
it survives our thirst.
In the evening we come down to the shore
to drink our fill,
and sleep,
while it flows
through the regions of the dark.
It does not hold us,
except we keep returning to its rich waters
thirsty.
We enter,
willing to die,
into the commonwealth of its joy."
— Wendell Berry

The Little Wolf

"Never postpone Love. You can postpone everything else, but not Love." –Osho

Tobe’s Early Third

“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”
― Jeanette Winterson

Ben’s Birthday

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi