happier 4:20

sweet jimmy's 4:20

you see i was born on this day at 4:20 am - no shit

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the last few years i've been getting up at 4:20 on my birthday

just now i woke up at 4:17 - without an alarm - kinda neat to wake up on your birthday just moments before you were born and take a little time to think about that

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it's a serene time of day

everything earthbound

is silouetted black against a strangely luminescent sky

that point in time when darkness gives way to shadows

when black turns to midnight blue

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birds are singing as though they're anticpating the light

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it a good time to be free of the frenetic buzz that is everyday

and just feel

and be thankful

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i had a fabulous evening with my daughter

and the most incredibly beautiful woman

enjoying the important things while doing simple things

important things like laughter and love

simple things like drinking wine, shopping for food together

and strawberries from my garden

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i think of my mom just now

should i call her - it's 4:39

resist the urge - i think i already did that one other year

i wouldn't want the joke to get old

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this joke i call me is getting old

and what bothers me most about that

is that my life is unusual interesting and brilliant

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i feel good
i love who i am

i love the people i have in my life

i feel connected and aware and intuitive

i feel relevant wrong respected and loved

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i like this ride

and

every year the ride is one year shorter

or so we like to believe

you never really know

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my warm bed waits

daylight threatens to unleash the buzz

exhale

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carpe diem