The Birthday celebrates the birth of a universal becoming animal. This book that you hold takes the necessary moment to bear witness to the last year of that becoming. The person you give this book to on the day we celebrate that birth stands at the threshold of a door that sees a future of becoming. Sees the struggle and change required to become.

Becomes what?

This book takes the moment to look at the becoming path that lay behind you, to instruct you in the mysteries of becoming in the future. It allows for a fuller being in the present. Ideally this book helps you identify the same in you. And you must, in order to bear witness. What have you two traveling companions become over the last year? What changes took place and what was required? Choose four times that you recognized their becoming as you bore witness or your becoming as they bore witness. In the center, on one side, share with them who you are in that moment you are writing it, without past or future. On the other, share what you witness they are in this moment of your writing it.

Becomes more human.

What is a birthday? Is it the day that someone is born? Or, is it the day that someone becomes?

Use this book to celebrate the trials and tribulations of becoming together. It is our destiny fulfilled when we celebrate the individual and the community that gives rise to each without denying the struggle it requires.