cheers!

Today is our dear granddaughter Megan's 17th birthday. And I can't help getting all nostalgic about it. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was a toddler? Because we lived so far away when she was born and no one had the money to hop on a plane, and because there was no Facetime or cellphone videos - or even (gasp!) digital photography (is that possible? a world without digital photography!!!) I didn't get to see her until she was 8 months old. We bonded immediately and that mysterious bond will always exist. Happily we've seen more of each other through the years and have traipsed into Manhattan, Santa Fe, Taos, Connecticut together. Her smile lights up the sky and we wish her all the best that life has to offer. 

We send her a message today (from Buddha), because in spite of everything good, she's still an adolescent - a most critical and vulnerable time of life. It's hard to imagine a world beyond friends and fun and the desire to reach adulthood quickly; so Megan, hear this:

you are what you think,
all that you are arises with your own thoughts;
with your thoughts you make your world

choose your thoughts well...