💐Today I turn 65.

Because I am a children’s librarian and I produce a podcast for babies and toddlers I was thinking about what children’s book is the the theme, the soundtrack for my life over the past year.

And I found one!

It is A Good Day by *Kevin Henkes

It’s really aimed at 2-4 year olds

But it has a lot to teach this 65-year-old about how a bad day can become a good day

I had a lot of those days this year

I am Jamaican and this year I lost my home and most of my old books, hundreds of them, and photographs in hurricane Beryl.

But this was also a year of luck and hope and joy for me

Luck because all I lost was a house, and it can be rebuilt.

Hope because my 42-year-old son, who is on the spectrum, learned to drive this year

I never dreamed I would see that.

And it was a year of joy - joy in my friends, children, grandchildren, my work.

And in my own beautiful self.