Today, is my birthday – which is good news for someone with a memory like mine. You see, yesterday was my Godfather’s birthday – which means it’s pretty easy for me to remember mine!<\/p>\n
Anyway my youngest daughter, Julia, has been away on her class trip to Washington DC. She returned this morning, however I never saw her until lunchtime, when she dragged me down the stairs to reveal another little note, along with a duck feather on my desk – presumably to be used as a writing implement. I faithfully transcribe her note, below.<\/p>\n
Dear father,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I didn’t know what to give you, I couldn’t find the right words for a poem so I will give you this instead.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Age is but a number, as is time only a placeholder. When you don’t think about the time is it really there? I have to say If you don’t think about age you can live forever. Not in reality but you will be remembered for living like you can never die…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I know I will die one day but not before you old man, see you in the fire.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, she does have a certain way with words – I think I’ll keep her, for now…<\/p>\n PS. In celebration of my Godfather’s birthday, my first novel “Beltamar’s War” is FREE<\/strong><\/span> on Amazon for May 23rd, and 24th. This offer should be available globally, simply head on over to your nearest Amazon and do a search for “Beltamar’s War”.\u00a0 Please snag a copy for yourself, and tell any friends, too.<\/p>\n Consider it my gift, to you. Your gift, to me, will be to read it, and weep {I mean that in a good way.}<\/p>\n For your inconvenience, the USA and UK links appear below. Today, is my birthday – which is good news for someone with a memory like mine. You see, yesterday was my Godfather’s birthday – which means it’s pretty easy for me to remember mine! Anyway my youngest daughter, Julia, has been away on her class trip to Washington DC. She returned this morning, however I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,47,164],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beltamars-war","tag-birthday","tag-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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