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i recall well this time last year, when the goats were out eating the wild grass on the hills. on my way home from work last night, i saw them again. it fills me with such joy to watch these animals eating away the mountain, at the onset of summer. there is such beauty in this, and such beauty in the simple fact that the men with their loud cutting and blowing machines are nowhere to be found. in all things; music, life, perhaps even the afterlife, silence can so deeply enrich the sound that later exists. animals quietly eating grass, is just another form of music, equally important to all other sounds. perhaps the most noticable sound today, is the fact that i am 30 and one half years old. why don't we celebrate our half birthdays? aren't they also important? sometimes, the half is more meaningful than the whole. 30.5 oh this year is so full of surprises and great things. so today is for you and me mie, you and me. yes, mie and i share the same day of birth. and yes, life is mysterious. so happy, happy to us i say. may today be full of halves. halfway to somehwere and halfway from somewhere else. divided and yet whole. quiet and loud.

Posted by jeff at June 3, 2003 12:41 PM

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