Today our family celebrated the birthday of our dear friend, Gerrie Dixon. We enjoyed dinner with Gerrie at The Porch in Daybreak.
Birthdays are truly amazing events. Birthdays reaffirm life and the passage of time. Birthdays are a way to mark another year of lived experiences. Birthdays whether we are celebrating 1 year or 100 years remind us that life is a true blessing meant to be lived and savored each and every day of that each year.
Oscar Wilde said: To live is the rarest thing in the world, most people just exist.
I am trying to LIVE each day of my life. A huge part of truly being alive is my connections to other people. To my husband, Gil, my daughters Jessica, Samantha, Cassandra and Nicole and my family and friends.
A recent article in the Deseret News about the impact connections /relationships have on aging might have been written with my friend, Gerrie, as one of the test subjects. https://www.deseret.com/2022/5/7/23060482/harvard-longevity-study-happiness-relationships-physical-mental-health-byu-waldinger-super-ager
Research, a lot of research, is showing that it is our relationships that helps us age well even more than our genetics. The theme for Rootstech 2022 was Connection. That is what the power of Elijah truly is the sealing power, the power of eternal connection.
I am so grateful for the connections in my life past, present and future. Living life to its fullest is all about creating, nurturing and celebrating connection.