Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

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Guess who turns 5-0 TODAY!

Happy Birthday Sawsan!

More on Sawsan here at Sawsan Takes The Proust Questionnaire!

73 thoughts on “Guess.What.Day.It.Is?”

  1. Happy Birthday, Sawsan! Fifty is a great age to achieve. It’s a point where you still have good health if you are fortunate and the ability to do what you want – go places, enjoy life – yet have awareness of how the world works. In the film “Sunset Boulevard”, the Gloria Swanson character, Norma Desmond, is characterized as being washed up and 50. In the middle of the 20th Century, a woman was like that at 50! In the 21st Century, a woman is just getting going!

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          1. No problem! I bet she is a still-beautiful and more mature Sawsan! Check out women you admired in your youth and you will see that the beauty doesn’t diminish, just evolves!

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          2. You did not just say that out loud!!!
            I was 40 in this photo.
            You posted this. You neglected to share my age in the photo.

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    1. Paul, which reminds me, where is YOUR Proustian questionnaire? 🙃 We need to know more of what YOU think, too. This is such a ‘select’ group with a wide range of different opinions. Yours surely can be counted to be of interest to all of Dave’s readers….. (Dave: hint hint)

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      1. Hi Kiki,
        Thank you for being interested in getting to know me a bit better. I am certainly “the new kid on the block” here, and I am grateful that I discovered this blog. It is clear to me that this is a special place with special people who are highly intelligent and wise. I am a retired computer graphics software developer, and my sense is that I am not nearly as “well read“ as many of you. I find that a bit intimidating, but I also admit that my self-esteem can use some work!

        As to the questionnaire, I will give it some thought. I’m going to have to do a search and see how many people have “taken the plunge”! That will help me decide what to post. 🙃

        Hope you have a great day Kiki 🙂

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        1. I’m sure Dave will invite you now, Paul… As for ‘highly intelligent and wise’, I don’t know. Yes. We have both, and from time to time, even in the same person. 😉 But it’s really all Dave’s merit. He writes such compelling and interesting stuff that he attracs the kind of ‘thinking’ people. I’ve made many a friend thanks to Dave and I treasure this platform highly.
          And mind you, I only tease ppl I love and appreciate. With all the others I’m polite 😌

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        2. After attempting to use the search function in WordPress, it appears to me that 10 people have taken The Proust Questionnaire (that includes DK). Hmmmm… that’s 10 out of 11,865 followers. Or 0.0008428% Oh man! I’m feeling major pressure here! Lol.

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          2. I’m going to share something here that will give some readers a chuckle at my expense. I was a good all-around student, but I always leaned towards math and computers. If I hadn’t written software, I would’ve liked to have taught math at the college level (good luck finding a job, right lol).

            So I’m sitting here today and it suddenly occurs to me (this is true)… “Who is going to use WordPress?? Oh! (duh) most likely many bloggers like to write! So WordPress bloggers will probably lean heavily towards people who love the arts!” (Paul, now, completely embarrassed, goes and hides under the bed.) 🙂

            PS: Dave writes: “Oh,Paul, that’s just Math”. My response: “Don’t knock, math DK lol… how else would they know how long to make #2 pencils??”

            PPS: Dave first writes: “No pressure“…followed immediately by: “We’ll give you 30 days“. LOL! I love that one!

            (Laughing)… Hold on a second…30…A number…THAT’S MATH! 🙂

            Cheers everyone! Have a great night!

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  3. Happy Birthday my dearly beloved friend. You are an absolutely amazing woman to know and I wish you the very best of everything. Peace. Freedom. Happiness. Love. Fulfillment. Mat you be surrounded by ppl who love you and care deeply for you. You deserve it!
    Hugs 🫂 and much love 💝

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  9. Good morning, David.
    Thank you 🙂

    Can’t believe it’s been almost 4 years since the Proust Q.

    If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? 
    As Myself, again and again, and again.
    This answer still holds.

    I appreciate you and this special safe place you have created so much.

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  11. May I add t the enthusiastic HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!! Somehow your picture is completely aligned with how I think of you (based solely on my cyber view) – beautiful, thoughtful, not shaken by the winds that swirl around us, looking at the camera with some affection mixed for the person who clicked the shutter mixed with a little discomfort (impatience?) with the whole ‘smile for the camera’ exercise. And may I add, all of that may be complete b.s.; perhaps that’s pure conjecture on my part. So, I’m going top return to the original sentiment – wishing you a fantastic birthday and an even more fantastical year ahead…

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    1. You left me speechless, Mimi.
      Thank you for the birthday wishes.

      This photo is very special to me. It was taken on Valentine’s Day a couple of years after my father in law passed away. He left us in August 2010.
      My mother in law took this photo.
      She was very sad that morning. Her husband took good care of her. He was a very tender man. He always planned ahead. I bought the flowers he asked for before every special occasion, to give to her.
      Every Friday morning, he left a note card with a few lines of poetry that he wrote just for her.
      So the Valentine’s day this photo was taken, my husband was at work. She was down. So I took her and my 7 year old daughter at the time to a place an hour and a half away from Chicago, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
      He asked me to take them there several times when he was still alive. He fell in love with the lake. He would push her on the swing for an hour.
      It was the most precious thing for my little daughter, Layla, to witness.
      I would say that the happiest years of my life were the years he was still alive. He brought everything to life.
      My mother in law knitted the whole way there and back. She listened to her favorite songs. It was a party on a road trip.
      When we got there, she said, ” no one ever takes pictures of you. Give me the camera.”

      I was deliciously tired those few years they lived with us. I miss those years.

      This makes everything you said very true.

      Thank you for the trip down memory lane ❤️

      My father in law and DK share the same birthday.

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      1. If my comments elicited such a gorgeous memory, then I’m so glad I sent them. Your memories of your dad-in-law remind me a lot about my dad before illness stole his memory, his speech and his movements. The weekly flowers, romantic gestures that always delighted me – even as I rolled my eyes. My kids have the memory of my dad as the primary man in their life – and I see so much of him in the way they parent their girls. Anyway, I didn’t intend to walk down my own memory lane; this is your birthday…I am so grateful to you for sharing these thoughts with me. I may not have read it correctly, but if I hit one spot, I’m gratified. Enjoy your day! 💗

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  12. It’s been wonderful getting to know you through Dave’s blog. May you have the most magical day today and may that magic continue for another 50 years! Happy Birthday!

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  15. Happy birthday to a beautiful lady with so much soul and poetry inside her. 50 is a grand age, my friend. Though you are working, I do hope you have a fantabulous day! xoxo

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  16. Happy Birthday Dear Sawsan! Thank you for sharing more of yourself ala Proust (pass the madeleines, please). Relating to your revelation about “losing” your sons for 10 years! What a relief that is in the past and now you know where they are. I stepped away (as I often do while responding to these L&L’s…and lost what I wrote…as often happens). Will share it was suggested that my 3 children live with my ex-husband because he had finally made big money and I…. [NO WAY that would happen! without saying a word] Then, your fiery and icy nature–I’ve described mine as volatile inside that I have to constantly work on to clear and calm. We’re alive on all levels! That’s a gift!

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    1. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

      Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

      It has been a ride!

      Thank you for sharing your story, Valerie

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