Birdday-celebration

Thank you all my friends for your birthday greetings on facebook. I appreciated them greatly!

The day started with a call connecting three countries, the boys from South-Africa and Swaziland on the same line as the girls in Sweden singing "Happy birthday" together in parts. Amazing!

There is this lovely traditional song from Dalarna:

"Min födelsedag förtjänar att jag ett tacksamhetsljud till himmelen sänder att prisa min Gud, som skapat mig väl att jag av hans hander fått lemmar och själ."

"My birthday deserves that I a thankful sound to heaven send to praise my God, who made me well that I from his hands have received limbs and soul."

So I headed out the Klockargården-door, with your Facebook messages landing in my pocket with happy tinkles, to the Dala-Floda outbacks to express my gratitude and to try to find my voice in this the most exuberant of celebrations: the boreal spring.

This is what I tweeted:

May my birthday

be an earthday

a-holy-ground-day

an I-am found-day

And may my birthday

be a bird-day

an in-the-sky-day

an I-am-high-day

You festive season

of rhyme and reason

of highest calling

from lowest veld

Of vegetation

in elevation

and heaven’s dome

in a dewdrop held

How can I join

in the celebration?

How could I add

to the festive mood?

How could I echo

exuberantly

the bursting bud

and the bulging brood?

“You do, you do!”

chirps the tit so cheerful

“You are, you are!”

chaffs the chiffchaff’s trill

“You are the reason

for celebration

You are the cause

of our highest thrill.

So join us now

in our jubilation

So join us now

and our joy fulfil

Be you the reason

for celebration

Be you the cause

of your highest thrill”

Comments

Åke Edvinsson, 60 år

Det går nog knappt en dag utan att jag tänker i tacksamhet på dig, Åke. Alla minnen som vi delat under årens lopp blir man ju ständigt påmind om genom gamla sånger och sammanhang, människor och miljöer som poppar upp litet här och där, litet nu och då. Häromdagen slogs jag av en lust att hålla ett tacktal till dig för allt du betytt för mig, men antog att det är väl något jag kommer att skjuta upp tills din begravning - om nu inte du kommer att sjunga på min dessförinnan. Men varför vänta till dess, tänkte jag sen? Det är så dags då, nej låt mig få uttrycka detta nu! Och så vaknar jag idag och ser att du fyller 60 år! Detta är mitt tillfälle, att få skriva ett helt oförblommerat tacktal till en underbar människa som nog betytt mer för mig - och för många andra - än någon annan utanför den innersta familjekretsen! Den första gång jag såg dig var den första gång jag hörde dig; i barnkören som repade i kyrkskolan under fröken Gun Anderssons ledning. Och vi fortsatte s

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