Yesterday we had our chocolate walnut cake dessert with cherry sauce, and chatted about many things including the life of Handsome Partner, the supreme court finally making good decisions, peppermint plants, John Tradescant and others.
The tiny bouquet, picked between storms, included spiderwort, aka tradescantia virginiana, hence the Tradescant chat.
Anyway, we remembered Handsome Partner on his 91st birthday, and here are a few thoughts from earlier birthdays on this blog
I didn't know when I wrote the first one here, that it would be his last. It's a long post that acknowledges blogistas, too, and. you might like to check it out
Happy day, everyone, storms outside, but it's peaceful indoors, in every sense.
Tis a very fine and appropriate tradition. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, it's a good one
Deletesuch an excellent way to celebrate a life, a love, family. I don't even remember the date that my beloved father died - sometime in November, election day - we joked he stayed with us long enough to find out that the party of his favoured persuasion had won enough to govern. I remember him on his birthday too. F
ReplyDeleteIt just seems better to remember their life.
DeleteCelebrating the important ones in our life is important!
ReplyDeleteYes, remembering their importance in our lives.
DeleteMy heart goes out to you and your handsome partner and son
ReplyDeleteThank you, May!
DeleteJust lovely. I know you think of him every day but it is a very fine thing to especially honor him on his birthday.
ReplyDeleteI always envied him his lovely June birthday! Sunshine, strawberries, all great.
DeleteI think celebrating like this is a great tradition and wonderful that doing so now then leaves a Handsome Son to enjoy his own day. I wish I had thought about this when my mother was still alive and had chosen to celebrate Mother's Day at a different time. My grandmother passed away on Mother's Day so that made it difficult for my mom in later years.
ReplyDeleteWell, now you know, and you know about half birthdays, too.
DeleteThis is truly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI agree with others that this is a fine tradition.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good idea to create your own if the prevailing ones don't fit.
DeleteThat sounds like an excellent memorial practice.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly more fun than observing only the end of life.
DeleteWhat an excellent way to remember HP. You sent me down a rabbit hole about John Tradescant (both elder and younger) whom I'd somehow not heard of. (Although I have heard of Tradescantia, the genus of one of the houseplants in our living room!)
ReplyDeleteHis name crops up all over. He worked for Cecil, one of the powerful ministers around Elizabeth I, and a collateral ancestor of the Jonathan Cecil who was a great audiobook reader. You can tell his bona fides when he pronounces it Sissil!
DeleteA much better way to remember, celebrate a lost loved one than the day they left.
ReplyDeleteIt's more fun for the survivors.
DeleteHappy heavenly birthday to handsome partner. I’m sure he is looking down and smiling. I’ll raise a glass to him and you xx
ReplyDeleteThank you from all of us!
DeleteEvery year I appreciate that you and HS celebrate the life of HP on his birthday. I know about the random odds of coincidence, but it still seems interesting that so many people die on celebratory days. My mother passed on my father's birthday, and it was an unfortunate and of course unplanned irritation to him in their otherwise very strong marriage. Had he not himself died within the year, I hope we would have figured out a similar strategy.
ReplyDeleteA very handsome bouquet! And a wide-ranging conversation around that chocolate walnut cherry-sauced cake. You have a lovely, as well as Handsome, Son.
Chris from Boise
Michael is interested in a lot of things. He was amused to note that after John tradescant had managed to bring that plant on the long sea voyage from Virginia to England, to cultivate it, I was unable to keep it going for more than a couple of hours in my house!
DeleteGreat idea to celebrate the birthday! Love it!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful idea. If anyone in my family outside myself celebrated birthdays, this would be part of a family tradition.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to him. Too bad the Supremes didn't keep it up with the good decisions.
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