Happy Birthday To Me

It is with immeasurable joy that I turn one year older today. We spent my birthday doing something we do regularly that some might consider quite extraordinary but I have come to know the whole of my life is extraordinary (I see it all with such bright eyes) so I enjoyed riding my horse for five hours in a beautiful place very much. We are home now, warming up, cooking dinner, and soon I will have my cake and eat it, too.

It is good to be alive! It is good to be well! It is good to be loved!

A beloved friend of mine once said, “If it’s in your heart to celebrate, then celebrate.” That’s exactly what I did this year. I love being myself and I am so grateful for my life, for the parts that have been easy and the parts that have been hard. All I feel today is thankfulness for one more breath, one more blink, one more sunrise, one more sunset, the feeling of the wind in my long hair and the smell of my horse sweating. At the root of all of this, and more, is simple joy.

Here’s to me. Happy birthday, me.

Comments

  1. nathalie carles says

    Happy Birthday to the wonderful woman that you are, it seems that the older ou get the even better you become, always wonderful l to hear about your life that you love so much, it is a real pleasure….I wish you a fabulous personal year, and a great show that I would’ve love to go to. Happy Birthday, from one of your oldest fan (may be in age ahahaha but I meant the amount of time I have been following you).

  2. Happiest of Days, Miss Jillian. ALL of them.

  3. Happy Birthday Jillian – glad you had a wonderful time!

  4. Celebrating with you, Jillian! Thanks for sharing all the beauty.

  5. Gratefulness, thanksgiving, celebration, joy. Happy Birthday, dear you.
    xx

  6. Happy birthday, Jillian!!! What a gift your life is – to you, and to everyone else! Thank you for sharing it. xoxo

  7. Happiest of birthdays. If we earn every one, we will be grateful for them all, I wouldn’t give any year back, even the tough ones.

  8. Chris Moore says

    Happy Belated Birthday!!!

  9. Happy belated indeed. Hope the birth day continues to extend on into this new week, and that respite from toil, is in sight. May your joy be full.

  10. Laura Hunter says

    Wishing you a grand and and joyful year !