My Lucky Number is 13

As I stand on my patio waiting for the sun to appear, throwing a frisbee to a dog who will jump to retrieve it for as long as I keep going, I keep thinking about the patterns in numbers. It’s my 55th birthday today – Double digits! (since 5+5=10). It is also Friday the 13th. My birthday is 10.13, making it all a little extra. The repetitive disc throwing feels meditative, and the recurring numbers from the past few days float through my mind. Two of my favorite singer-songwriters have birthdays leading up to mine – John Prine was born on the 10th, Todd Snider on the 11th. In my final dream this morning, I know I was dreaming about a birthday on the 12th, but it slipped away before I could grab the details.

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