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In Lieu Of…
It’s my birthday this week, and, while I am still this side of one of those big number years, I am - let’s be honest - getting up there. But only to the point that “my special day” feels a lot like any other day and all I really want as gifts are a nice meal I didn’t have to cook and maybe some new socks and some good tea.
Really, that’s what I told my kids - nice socks and a really good loose-leaf decaf.
But it’s got me thinking - you know how you always see death announcements (if you’re morbid like me and like to read them) and they say, “In lieu of flowers…” I started thinking about what I’d like in lieu of presents. (And yes, it has occurred to me that it is a mite sad that my impending birthday would bring me to making analogies to funerals).
So, in lieu of flowers, I would like:
a few more beautiful autumn days, with crisp blue skies, low, fat clouds, and burning leaves before the gray skies clamp down on me.
a day without rudeness - when I drive, shop, or anything else.
and (knowing the GG rule about no politics) just a simple wish that, whatever the outcome, whoever has the right to vote will get to vote and will find a way to get out there and do it, AND that the vote will be fairly conducted and tallied.
There. Simple, eh? What would your in lieu of presents be for your next birthday? Anything you’d like to give to someone else in lieu of presents?