What is a birthday? Is it the day that someone is born? Or, is it the day that
someone becomes?
Becomes what?
Becomes more human.
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.
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.
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.
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