Ailantha
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Golden Girl

10/3/2016

4 Comments

 
​     Here's me on October 2, my birthday.
Picture
     I expect we've all had a memorable birthday or two along the way.
     For me there was, for example, my 20th birthday
​      M
e, age 20, with a friend, Michel,
Picture

     On my 20th birthday I was a student in Paris and Mme. Vidalenc, the woman in whose house I was renting a room, threw me a birthday party with chocolate whipped cream cake which I ate it even though I don't much like chocolate cake or real whipped cream - I only like the fake stuff from the can or Cool Whip - and champagne which I drank even though I didn't drink and afterwards I threw up all night long.
         I also remember my 33nd birthday, the night before which I'd been up all most of the night with a  crying new-born, a sick 2 -year-old and a sick 4-year old, and thinking I felt more like 83 than 33.
​        
Me, circa my 33rd birthday.
Picture
      On my  55th birthday I was on my way home from a visit with my daughter Claire who at that time was working in the Nicaraguan jungle.
     
Me on a bus - well, actually, it was a truck - in the city of Leon a few days before my 55th birthday.
Picture
     I remember on the evening of that birthday floating in the pool of the Best Western hotel in Managua, looking up at the moon and thinking, Wow, here I am floating in a pool in Managua on my birthday looking up at the moon.
    
On my 62nd and 64th birthdays I was in Spain with Tom hiking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

Circa birthdays no. 62,
Picture
​...and  64.
Picture
      Though off the top of my head I don’t remember either of those days in particular, I guess I could always look them up -  as could anyone who wished -  on my Camino blogs, “Tighten Your Boots” and “…And Lighten Your Pack”.
      And I expect this past birthday should also go into my basket of memorable birthdays, maybe not so much for what I did on that day as for the fact that the day marked the 65th rotation of the earth around the sun since my arrival on the planet, officially signifying in my society and culture my  entrance into a new phase of life as well as bringing some changes in my legal and social status.
       However I did in fact end up spending my 65th birthday involved in something memorable:  on that day I was, in a small way, part of the 2016 Presidential campaign.

I spent the day canvassing for Hillary Clinton.
Picture
Picture
4 Comments
Claire
10/4/2016 11:59:33 am

Happy Birthday Mom! Hard to believe we were in Nicaragua 10 years ago! Feels like yesterday.

Reply
Patti
10/4/2016 02:31:39 pm

I know, right?!

Reply
Mj
10/4/2016 06:18:25 pm

Wow, you've done a lot through the years. Hope this birthday was equally as memorable.

Reply
Patti
10/4/2016 08:07:40 pm

Aw, thanks, Mary Jane! Interestingly, it was a Sunday night but nobody could make it to dinner! Which was actually okay 'cause I didn't have to cook!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    Picture
    ​"Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
    Picture
    "Tropical Depression" 
    by Patti Liszkay
    ​Buy it on Amazon:   
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTPN7NYY

    Archives

    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    RSS Feed

    I am a traveler just visiting this planet and reporting various and sundry observations,
    hopefully of interest to my fellow travelers.

    Categories

    All


























































































  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact