Happy Birthday Jon

I can still remember the smell of the jute, as I stood in my bedroom tying macrame wall hangings.  It was the late 70’s and I was probably one of the few people still doing macrame.  I was in high school and taught myself from books.  I never used the patterns they suggested, always made up my own.  I only had a couple of friends and spent a lot of time alone.

When I was thinking of what to get Jon for his birthday, I went to see Heather at our bead store, for inspiration.  I didn’t know what I was looking for, but I saw the already made friendship bracelets.  Jon and I buy them for each other sometimes and wear them till they fall apart.  But this time I decided to make one for Jon.   So I got some waxed colored hemp and went home to see what I remembered.

I cut four strands of hemp and stared at them.  I couldn’t figure out what to do.  So I googled friendship bracelet and found simple instructions.  I still didn’t remember as I tied the first knot,  than the second.  But as I got the fifth or sixth, my hands just took over.  They remembered.   Under, over,  under, over, when I thought about it I couldn’t do it.   So I just let my hands do what they do.

Jon’s speaking at the Dover Library Dessert Social tonight in Vermont.  He made a deal with them for a two night stay in a B&B in Vermont.  So that’s where we’ll be spending Jon’s 68th birthday.

The longer we’re together and the more we go through, good and bad, the more I love Jon.  We’re compatible in ways I never even imagined two people could be.  He’s always growing, changing, moving on and ahead.  Something I never want to stop doing either.  And he’s a wonderful thinker, curious and not afraid to have any conversation.  Life sparkles and glows around him.  He holds love in his fingertips with every touch.  How grateful I am to celebrate this day with him, to spend my life with him.