What makes you feel good?

             Breakfast in bed presented by smiling children is a perfect example - other people’s ideas of how to make you feel good on your birthday are not always on target (crumbs on sheets, toxic morning mouth…but the smiling children are a winner). Years ago I learned to go to the source.
                  Robin – what makes you feel good? That’s what you should do on your birthday (or as many as you can arrange…)

• Don’t rush. Whatever it is, start early so you can take your time.
• Climb a mountain.
• Go for a walk before breakfast. And maybe again in the angled evening light.
• Pick blackberries straight into your cereal bowl.
• Swim a mile.
• Hug dogs.
• Hug people.
• Talk to your children.
• Check things off the to-do list.
• Make the bed (so you get the lift of that made-bed room tonight).
• Make your favorite birthday cake. Or an ice-cream sundae. With peanut butter sauce. And whipped cream.
• Eat well, not too much.
• Laugh.
• Sing.
• Sleep well.

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Here is where I began. I wonder what made me feel good that day? Clearly something awesome.