Blessings for Your Birthday

Talking to my sister Janet on one of our weekly calls, she mentioned her daughter Denise’s birthday was in November. Her name provoked memories of the first day my sister placed her as a newborn in my arms when I was only seventeen. My past anger of my father’s death and my mother’s sickness and death left me for a few hours as I watched God’s creation look up at me. My mind was also recalling leaving New Jersey for more than twenty years while in the Navy. When I returned to New Jersey at the age of 38, I was reunited with my family. Denise, during her chiropractic school in North Carolina would come and stay with me on weekends and school breaks in Toms River N.J. When she was present we would watch the night stars and dream of life’s next adventures.