Although my name ain’t Billy, here’s my birthday song (I know Spotify embeds are fraught, but it’s my birthday and I love this song.  Play this at a kid’s party on endless loop and watch the “pinball machine freak out”. (For afficianados that means an extra ball and post up.)

Gifts keep coming on this, my birthday.  Thanks so much for playing and coming to the party that goes on forever.

and this, thanks for coming to my birthday and bringing such a grand gift:  Maha and Simon and  Susan and Kevin–your voices bring tears of joy.  Great to have lived long enough to know youse guys.

and this card below is my gift to myself as I explore the uniqueness that was January seventh in nineteen fifty-five.

Birthday