Happy Birthday, Bill Ryan!

[Mark]

Hope you've enjoyed the day and made the most of it, Mr. Ryan, Soular Returns are special, we only have a certain number of them in a lifetime. This one marks another year of growth, another year of presence, another year of love expressed by service to the greater reality. I hope you experience many more in the same spirit of giving and truth. Bless.

[Chuck_M]

Happy Birthday, Bill! You have enriched this planet in many ways, not least of which by creating this marvelous online community. Throughout your life "the mystery sang alive," and we have all been uplifted by your joy and celebration of life!

Poem in October
Dylan Thomas


It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore
The morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
And the knock of sailing boats on the webbed wall
Myself to set foot
That second
In the still sleeping town and set forth.

My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In a rainy autumn
And walked abroad in shower of all my days
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.

A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill's shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me.

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.

It turned away from the blithe country
And down the other air and the blue altered sky
Streamed again a wonder of summer
With apples
Pears and red currants
And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sunlight
And the legends of the green chapels

And the twice told fields of infancy
That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine.
These were the woods the river and the sea
Where a boy
In the listening
Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy
To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide.
And the mystery
Sang alive
Still in the water and singing birds.

And there could I marvel my birthday
Away but the weather turned around. And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon
Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.
O may my heart's truth
Still be sung
On this high hill in a year's turning.

[kirolak]

If there's anyone who deserves a really Happy Birthday & a wonderfilled personal new year, it's you, Bill!

[regnak]

Happy Birthday Bill Ryan

[Conde]

Feliz cumple sr. Bill !!!

[MorningSong]

Auguri di Buon Compleanno, Bill!

[Aryslan]

Happy Birthday Bill! Thanks for all you've done over the years.

[ErtheVessel]

Wishing you much joy and happiness on your birthday, Bill!! Thank you for sharing all of your many gifts with the world - you make it a better place.

Hope your year ahead is filled with countless magical, wondrous and loving surprises!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IUw9zLK5yso

[lightseeker]

Happy Birthday Bill from Ottawa, Canada, may you have many more.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Happy Birthday Bill. All the best.

[enfoldedblue]

Hey Happy Birthday Bill! I hope you had an awesome day!

[Philaletheian]

Happy Birthday Bill Ryan!
Hope you had a great one!
Best wishes for the year ahead!

[Jules]

Best wishes on your birthday Bill Ryan! Hoping on your journey of bumping back that you take time to smell the South American flowers.

[Jean-Luc]

Well a little late to the fiesta, but here is a little present which I hope will help improve your Spanish.

On this link (valid a couple of days) : https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads...4145211/c09953

you'll find one of the best, if not the very best -- and certainly the most appropriate -- of the Adventures of Tintin, i.e. Bill & Mara the dog in Tibet in both English and Spanish, including a TV-video of this most epic episode.

Enjoy and feliz cumpleaños!

Jean-Luc

[LoneWolf76]

Happy Birthday Bill & many happy returns!
Hope you and Mara had a lovely picnic!

Thanks for all your hard work over the years, it makes a huge difference!

[3(C)+me]

I hesitate to say anything since I has all been said before.
But I do want to thank you for this forum, which I am sure is a headache at times and you probably wondered why you stated this in the first place.
But I do want to give you a million thanks for this forum as it is a gold mine of information and their are some wonderful, smart, kind people who visit here and that is all because of you.

Thank you and many happy birthdays to come.

[Alberto e Daniela]

Dear Bill, even if late, we wish you Many Happy Returns!

May your dreams come true!



con cariño
Alberto and Daniela

[Althena]

Sorry, just got back from Chile, no internet on the coast.

Happy late B-day!!!

[Rocky_Shorz]

Made it another year... awesome!!!


had a strange dream the other night, was at a dimensional doorway and something told me it was the one you described experiencing in person, was that asia/pacific or South America?

[nomadguy]

Happy Birthday Sir Ryan!