This is the last day-a-year special-time celebration that I shall be with you, learning what I have learned from our friends, the birds. I cannot go to be with you because you are already there. You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living. You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and you shall never die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventuer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness, and so it is with this ring. Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we will meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that can never end. ~A Bridge Across Forever ~Richard Bach