Birthdays
Many people I love are born in October. Who knows why. I have heard feeble explanations. Today is Fran's birthday. In two days is Annie's. It's birthday month.
I didn't want to tell anyone when I turned fifty. We were in PERU on a boat going to a small island near Lake Atitlan to an island where old women how old were they really all seemed to be smiling although maybe I was just looking for people who were smiling because it was my birthday. I quickly got even older and so did all my friends every single one of us is older and now I know how lucky it is that we are.