I have been celebrating my Birthday this past weekend. It began with a long lunch with my good friend Heather Atwood at a favorite local restaurants Tom Shea’s. When I arrived I was presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
A ballet of blossoms...
We toasted the day with a glass of wine… actually two glasses of wine… and then shared thoughts on everything from Art and Literature to ways of staying “forever young”. It was decided that keeping a positive attitude,exercising and feeling passionate about what you do are the most important factors in holding onto youth. No Botox for us! But we agreed that wine is good!
The celebration continued the next day when my generous husband took me to Boston for an overnight stay at the Long Wharf Marriott. The weather was perfect and so after parking the car we spent the afternoon walking up and down Charles St. on Beacon Hill (our old neighborhood) and then through the Boston Garden and over to Newbury St. The Pucker Gallery is one of my favorite Boston Galleries so we stopped there and spent some time looking at the recent exhibition of paintings and pottery THE NATURE OF REFLECTION.
After a late afternoon cocktail at the very elegant but hardly hip Hotel Fairmont we headed back to the Wharf and had a late dinner at the Boston Harbor Hotel’s Rowes Wharf Sea Grille which was comfortable and satisfying…still not hip! Am I really getting old?
The grand finale of my Birthday weekend was going to the Opera House to see the Boston Ballet perform “Simply Sublime”
I thought that I was pretty flexible after doing Yoga for the past twelve years until I watched the dancers on stage move effortlessly in ways I could only imagine…ethereal and very humbling especially on this particular Birthday! I think I ‘ll stick to painting , be grateful and keep celebrating…CHEERS!
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Colleen, you are one of the most youthful people I know. Your optimism and eye for beauty do more to preserve your youth than any more typical person’s shelf full of potions (or injections). A very Happy Birthday to you!
Thank you so much Sarah…it helps alot to have creative and younger friends like you to keep me inspired and laughing!! Smile lines are good!
Every year brings us more wisdom. I have learned that “To Everything there is a Season” and “Youth is Wasted on the Young”. I know you are growing and glowing! Keep following your dreams and you will stay “Forever Young”!
“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age,but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden” ~ Plato
I agree with Sarah; you are one of the youngest people I know! And I’m quite sure anything you do – or anywhere you go – becomes the new hip. I’m headed to The Fairmont soon!
Thank you Heather…I and do think you would enjoy the Hotel Fairmont…it’s so civilized! Very turn of the last century…which you know I love!