Happy Birthday Heather!

HALCYON DAYS.

Not from successful love alone,

Nor wealth, nor honored middle age, nor vic-

tories of politics or war.

But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions

calm,

As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the even-

ing sky,

As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the spirit and

frame like freshier, balmier air;

As the days take on a mellower light, and the

apple at last hangs really finished and in-

dolent ripe on the tree,

Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of

all!

The brooding and blissful halcyon days!

—Walt Whitman.

I hope you have a good one! Thanks to the magic of time zones, you get a two day birthday!

LM San