Hi everyone. Welcome to the blog where I talk about the present.
I’m gonna dedicate this blog to ME, because it was my birthday the other day! It made me realize that as you get older, you celebrate your birthday less and you become more self-reflective. In other words, I thought about things I’ve done, where I’ve gone, people I’ve met, etc. My birthday got me thinking about my condition. You see, I don’t consider myself handicapped. I consider myself severely injured. I’ve had many injuries as an athlete. Some you get over quick, some it takes a long time. This injury I have is a Mother ______ er of an injury. It’s just taking a long time to get over. You have to work hard to get results. You get out of it what you put into it. You can’t give up. You gotta keep at it, if you want to get better - and I want to get better. I’m tired of being in this stupid wheelchair.
On another note, I was talking to my nephew the other day. He asked me what my favorite birthday was. Now, my second wife did some pretty cool trips on my birthday, but hands down, the best birthday I had was with my first wife. We were living on North Bondi Beach in Australia, Sydney, Australia. On the afternoon of one of my birthdays, she blindfolded me, lead me down the stairs, put me in our car, drove to a bay, I could hear the sailboats. We walked down a dock. I thought we were gonna get on a boat, but we got on a seaplane. The seaplane flew half an hour north, I could feel the sun on my left shoulder. We landed and taxied to a dock where we were docked. We walked to what I thought was a house, but as I got inside, I could hear it was a restaurant. We sat down at our table and she took the blindfold off. The restaurant was cool. It was all candlelit, white linen, silverware, all the windows were open to a beautiful bay. There were no other structures. No roads, no power lines. The restaurant was in the middle of a state park. there was nothing but Eucalyptus trees straight down to the water. The setting was beautiful, like something out of a dream. Anyway, we had a great early dinner then flew back to Rose Bay at sunset. It was a cool birthday present.
Sydney is a great place. I highly recommend you go. We went there for our six week honeymoon. It turned into a 10 year stay. Then we moved to Paris, and the honeymoon was over. ha ha ha. Paris is cool too. They’re both completely different.
Love and miss you guys. Talk to you soon.
Love, B. Nice