Birthday Presents

Today is my Birthday.
I want to thank you all for your presents ("presence")
The gifts of your "presence" in my life.
Whether I've know you a moment, an hour, a week, a month, a year or a lifetime, you have all gifted me with your presence and like the song in Wicked says....because I've known you,  I have been changed for good.

It is the people in our lives and their "presence" who make up the wonderful pieces of the complete puzzle we are and will become.
We take each piece and try to fit it into the different grooves until one day the puzzle is completed and our life becomes a final piece of art.
Sometimes, the pieces don't fit, (the negative pieces), but when the pieces that do fit (the positive pieces) the puzzle making becomes an amazing game, and as the pieces come together, it brings so much joy.

Today, I celebrate my parents who started the puzzle called "Kelly".  I celebrate my siblings who were the first pieces that were added to my puzzle.  My grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, I celebrate you.  My childhood friends, my teen hood friends, my husband (one of my favorite pieces), my beautiful children, my grandson...you are all some of the best pieces that my puzzle is made up of. My adult hood friends, my work friends, my children's friends, my theater friends, my new and old friends, you and your presence in my life all make this puzzle making an everyday adventure, and I look forward to adding new pieces and new friends to the puzzle which is my life.

I am grateful for your "presence" and  I thank you for all the Birthday messages I received today.  I can't wait to keep adding pieces to my puzzle, and one day (many many years from now) when my puzzle is done, I hope you all see apart of yourselves in that puzzle.

Thank you for contributing to my piece of art.