A birthday was celebrated with good friends, food and wine. We were a melange of French astrophysicists, another French man who would love to be Scottish and adores Wagner, a linguist who heart belongs to weaving past, present and future philosophies and her son who listened with bemusement, amusement and at times, astonishment. Some at the table are at a crossroad of life choices, others are about to take a leap of faith in to their own business, all of us were of an age to regard our history, laugh at past mistakes, gently mourn loved ones and still look to the future.
