Happy Birthday Tamar

On Children Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. Marianna, Kahlil's Sister. Painting by Kahlil Gibran Happy Birthday Tamar.

Gheorghe Zamfir - Pan flute & harp - Schubert's Ave Maria

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5/5/2010

Dear aba

Thank you for the birthday wishes and the poem.

I'm at work today and don't have any particular news to repor. I am just working and living as usual! Although I am now living in my new house which I bought late last year. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of it because my laptop computer hard drive died last week and the data is not recoverable (well, too expensive to recover) so I'll have to start again with getting photos of it (along with everything else).

I hope that you and saba & safta and the boys are all well.

Love,

Tamar

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