Birthday

Helter Skelter

Yay me! Fifty-three!

I’m feeling a lot better than when I turned fifty-one.

It’s a weird time of life, this. Getting older, but not as old yet as the generation that raised us. Not being able to rely on that generation anymore either, when it comes to advice on life. It truly is time to take the wheel. Which I did literally by buying my own car. Autonomy!!!

The alarm in my head is manageable.

And I love love love getting things done around the house - I never thought of myself as a handywoman, but it turns out I can be one when I want to!

This is the Beatles song I play every year on my birthday:

And this is the song that I play extra this year, the song that embodies the feeling of everything repeating and being turned on its head again: