I'm now 39. Yay.<\/p>\n
Tuesday featured a bunch more good stuff. Thank you for all the birthday wishes in journal comments and email! Also got a couple of paper cards and an e-card; thank you to you who sent those as well.<\/p>\n
In the morning I finished up edits for a forthcoming story, which went nicely smoothly. Later, I was moderately productive at work; among other things, I resolved two smallish issues that had been sitting around unresolved since last summer. Came home after work to find a vase full of lovely flowers--irises (in just the right gorgeous rich blue, with cheerfully bright yellow bits) and purple flowers that may be tulips?--that Twig had left for me; thank you, Twig! Had a nice near-impromptu Ethiopian dinner with assorted folks. Sarah and Simon gave me a little personal-sized cake with a truffle on top. Kam sent photos of the tall ships--I also have a whole bunch of photos and videos from the three hours we were on the water, but haven't had a chance to sort or post them yet.<\/p>\n
Anyway, so Tuesday was not absolutely perfect (what day is?), but it was quite nice. Thanks again to all who contributed to that.<\/p>\n
Something else I enjoyed today: I looked at the winners of the YouTube Video Awards<\/a>, and though I wasn't thrilled with most of them (and had seen a couple of them before), they led me to the new video for Terra Naomi's song \"Say It's Possible\"<\/a>, which features an assortment of people holding up small signs. The explanatory note about the video says:<\/p>\n People from around the world filmed themselves and sent their videos to me. I asked everyone to answer the question \"what would you do\/want if anything were possible?\" in three words or less.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Some of the signs' messages are kind of trite or obvious, but there are some really lovely moments, and I like the song. Worth watching. Interestingly, when I first heard the song (in the original video, which just shows Terra Naomi singing it), I assumed it was about a relationship rather than about changing the world; I think it maybe works on both levels.<\/p>\n Back to the awards: my favorite of the winners of the YouTube Awards was the winner in the Most Inspirational category, \"Free Hugs Campaign<\/a>,\" which is thoroughly charming and sweet and, yeah, even inspirational. I was pretty dubious about it at the beginning, but I liked it a whole lot as it went on. For more info, see the Free Hugs Campaign<\/a> website.<\/p>\n Okay, I think that's all for tonight. Some more magazine work, and then to bed go I.<\/p>\n Oh, yes: Happy birthday, of course, to Jessica E., David H., and Theo P., none of whom are likely to see this.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m now 39. Yay. Tuesday featured a bunch more good stuff. Thank you for all the birthday wishes in journal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n