birthday boy....

ok, so december 11 will be the first occassion that i have not been with a child of mine on a birthday......and though i admit to the temptation to lament, and try to make it all about me.....the bottom line must be focused on my baby boy alone on his 19th birthday........which he shares with such lumineries as....the French composer, Hector Berlioz, the French writer, Alfred de Musset, the Russian writer, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the Puerto Rican actress, Rita Moreno, the Indian spiritual leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the US Senator and Presidential candidate, John Kerry, and the daughter of Aristotle Onasis, Christina Onassis.........aside from Kerry, they are all dead.....and certainly not worried about being alone on this special day....and though we have sent him surprises, both tangible and online....there is nothing like being with one's children on the anniversary of birth........he will be in our thoughts the entire day.........bon anniversaire......