Happy Birthday Bill

This post is for my wonderful brother Bill. 

When we were younger, he traveled the world as a ballet dancer.

 Sarah and Billy

                            Billy                          Sarah

                                   Helsinki

May 7th, 2009

Dear Bill,

My, My My!  Congratulations!  Fifty years of life is a big slice of time.  And we all know, you don’t have a wrinkle on you, do you?  Have you found one yet?  Some advice:  It’s the first one that get’s you.  All the rest don’t really matter after that. 

                                                                                                                 Prague

                                      You see it’s like when you have a brand new perfect car.  You don’t want to see a dent in it.  But one day you suddenly discover that first dent.  It’s devastating, isn’t it?  It ruins your day.  But then, other things happen, more dings and scratches, and suddenly you just don’t care any more.  Right?  Have you calmed down?  Or…..no, that’s not going to happen. 

    Siena

Morocco

                                                                                                                 Frederiksborg

Now, I am wondering…have you recognized the pictures…as the post cards you mailed to me over the years.  I’ve carried these post cards with me wherever I went, as I moved from place to place, wandering through the myriad settings of my life.  I kept them carefully packed like precious treasures. 

  Athens

You see, I have been planning for years to make a collage of these postcards and send it to you as a memento.  When Denis wrote to me about the Birthday Book, I knew the moment had come. The event of your fiftieth birthday is the perfect occasion now to return to you this collection of postcards which captures the many wonderful moments when you shared your presence with me from afar.  

Buxton, England

E. Berlin

Copenhagen

Thailand

The Baltic Sea

Martinique

Mallorca

Oeuf peints

Germany

Bill It seems like your entire life has been filled with bringing happiness and joy to your droves of dear friends, and to those who have come to see you perform.  That is your present to us. 

Even though you and I have spent our lives so far apart, some of my happiest memories are of our times together. 

Barcelona

  Huhnereir, Batik

London Butterfly Garden