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When you're little, every birthday is a big one. But as you grow up, it's O.K. to let them get small. I have mixed feelings about how midlife birthdays, once easily waved at as they passed quietly by, have spun so far out of control, thanks to Facebook alerts and my generation's abiding commitment to our eternal youth...
When my husband asked how I wanted to celebrate my birthday this year - the first anniversary of my 49th birthday, he called it - I was at a loss to answer. No surprises, I said; even our routines already supply plenty of those. No extravagance: we're still in a recession. When I read about Naomi Campbell's $1.8 million party at a seven-star hotel in Dubai (still wasn't enough to save the local economy), or the British retail tycoon who marked his 55th by sending his guests a travel wallet with instructions to meet at a London airport...
...wasn't always that way. I had to miss my fourth birthday - I had just had eye surgery and was not supposed to hang out with germy little kids - and my sense of justice was so aggrieved that six months later, in the middle of July, I invited all my playground friends over for a party. It would have all come off beautifully, had I not neglected to tell my mother...
...when we do, when we gather with friends and count our blessings, what I find I'm most grateful for, nestled so deeply here in middle age, is being able to watch the candles flicker, and marvel at how many birthday wishes past have already come true...
Many Quincy House residents learned this notorious history for the first time yesterday evening at Josiah’s 238th birthday celebration in Quincy dining hall. Cake, a history lesson from House Master Lee Gehrke, and a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” colored the celebration...