Birthday Boy.

It's our young man's birthday. He is proudly 14 going on older.

Hello

It had been a long while. Life's still a clutter and I am finding my way. This year is monumental and a milestone had been reached, but the search continues on. Sigh. Not really weary, or regretful, or much less, psyched - just here. I discovered this poem by William Ernest Henley - made me smile, I don't know why:O Gather Me the Rose

O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it.

For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed foreborn forever,
The worm Regret will canker on,
And time will turn him never.

So were it well to love, my love,
And cheat of any laughter
The fate beneath us, and above,
The dark before and after.

The myrtle and the rose, the rose,
The sunshine and the swallow,
The dream that comes, the wish that goes
The memories that follow!