60th BIRTHDAY (2003)
On the roof of the Potala palace in Lhasa, Tibet, 2003.
Twenty years ago I traveled, overland from Kathmandu to Lhasa to visit the School for the Blind and to see for myself the situation I had heard about in Nepal and India the previous year. If you would like to read about this trip, here is the link to “emails home” : CLICK: Tibet
I feel so lucky to have made the 80-year milestone – a few years past the expected life time of someone like me. So already I have experienced four “extra” years :-). I seem not to have slowed down much (except on some days) and am still traveling with international Montessori work; and there are two more books (one co-authored with an old friend, Lynne Lawrence) planned.
In 2023, the first birthday celebration (pictured above) was at a Michelin Star restaurant in Nootdorp, Netherlands with Joanne Kaya, friend and Montessori teacher I first met when she was teaching in Moscow.
Next, with an old (my age :-)) friend Judi Orion. We were both born in Tennessee in October, 1943, and have celebrated our birthdays together in Denver, Colorado, in Northern Italy, and now in Amsterdam. During this trip we visited the new Van Gogh museum . . .
And enjoyed the music in the park outside the museum.
Judi spends half of each year working in Amsterdam and invited her many friends here to a celebration dinner aboard a canal boat. Here we are with old friend Heidi Philippart.
One last-night celebration in Amsterdam at the home of Lynne and Steve Lawrence.
After several days of Montessori work—exploration of Romania and the Republic of Moldovia, and a public lecture on the last night— there was a surprise birthday party!
For more information about the books in this series, including a link to the titles that have been translated into the Romania language, CLICK: Romanian translations
For details about the work in Romania, CLICK: ROMANIA
And Finally. On my actual birthday, October 29, Jim and our son Michael and his wife Lucy enjoyed a dinner at our favorite restaurant in Trinidad, California. Yes that is a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture hanging above our table!
Blessings,
Susan
Home page, CLICK: Susan
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