Happy Birthday, Sully!

Being Sully

"O birds, your perfect virtues bring.

Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,

Your manners for the heart's delight...." R.W.E.

You do not have to be good.

You have only to be Sully

And love what you love.

Many things...

Yet you make it look so easy

Our memories delight in watching you.

Skater like your Dad,

Maker of beautiful artifacts like your Grammy,

Runner like your Mom.

Sweetheart like your Gramma,

Swimmer like your Papa,

Commentator on life and a readiness to stir the pot like your Grampy,

Reader like all of us,

You even look like us-- brown eyes, handsome, ready smile.

Whoever you are,

The world offers itself

To your imagination

Again and again

Forging your place in the family.

How readily you accept the task

Of carrying our lives forward.