Another Birthday and Another Year of Wonders

Dear Friends,

Well, it is my birthday! 38 and feeling great! I am so wonderfully happy with my life. Each year since having regular access to communication has been full of growth and new experiences and dreams realized. I can’t fathom how profoundly my life has changed since three years ago. I am so full of appreciation for my new life.

This year has been hard to define, and it has had challenges. I think each new year will be progressively harder to define. As my world expands, and diverse opportunities and avenues arise, it will be trickier to focus on only a small set of goals. And I know my support system will need to change over time. But I am trying to always remember where I came from. And I can’t actually process how far I have come in just over three years.

Building this beautiful community with you all has been such a labor of love. I am so proud of these connections! And I am so grateful to all of you. I am so moved to know that my efforts make a difference.

I have already been celebrating my birthday with a lovely dinner out and an enchanting evening at the San Diego Zoo, and a morning at the dog beach with the whole family. Today, I will have some close friends over for a homemade sushi feast and cake. It has been perfect!

And I am so happy to share this new poem. I wrote it as an update to my poem Years, which I had written for my first birthday after gaining fluency with Tara. I am so in awe of this life.

Your Friend,

Danny