Happy Birthday to me!
My middle name is Noel.
Today is my birthday.
A lot of people felt bad for me when I was a kid. “What a time for a birthday. Do you ever get a party? Do you get many presents, or is everyone too busy with Christmas?”
But I always thought it was a great time for a birthday. I thought I was very popular in my town: the whole city was decorated every year for my birthday.
And when I tell them my birthday, people always smile - it’s special!
Hubby and the girls gave me 5 - count ‘em - 5 books by Madeleine L’Engle. I have grown to love her fiction lately, but hadn’t looked further into her works, so I was surprised to learn that she has many non-fiction books as well.
Here’s what I received this morning:
- a hardback copy of Many Waters to replace my cheap and chintzy permabound paperback
- Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- The Summer of the Great-grandmother: the story of the author’s mother, and her descent into senility during her 90th summer. I’ll be starting with this one. It looks to be full of memories of a large and happy and thoroughly human family.
- The Irrational Season: an autobiography of sorts, built around the seasons of the church calendar
- The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle
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Happy Birthday (and Merry Christmas)! I’m looking forward to trying the chai recipe!
Happy Birthday and hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas!
I can relate…my birthday is 4 days after Christmas. I get the same questions.
Happy Birthday!
Karen
Happy belated birthday!
spunky
Ooooh! I didn’t realize you were a L’Engle fan. I count her as one of the true masters of the English language, along with A. A. Milne. Both of them have a way of writing that makes it a joy to read.
Hi there, and a belated Happy Birthday!
My middle name is Noel too, only I was born in March. (People are shocked that it is possible to have Noel as a mn without a Christmas birthdate.)
How are the Madeleine L’Engle books? I’ve been wanting to try some of her non-fiction as well… and it’s been many years since I’ve read A Wrinkle in Time (et al). Hope you’re enjoying your thoughtful gifts–and the Chai tea (we make that here, too. Yum!)
Nice weblog, by the way… looking at your blog background, seven very pretty daughters.