Dear 28

Dear 28,

I see you. You are very present and look very promising. Underneath it all, is this day we are meeting just another day? Everyday is a new beginning set apart from the day that came before it and a day that will come after it by a different set of numbers. But 11/23/1983 is my set of numbers, so today is more personal than yesterday although tomorrow will surpass its greatness. 11/23/1983 is my gateway more than my birthday because life doesn't only grow or arrive once a year. I've only known you a matter of minutes so far according to my cell phone clock, but my commitment to you is long overdue.

Like never before, I will treat your newness with wisdom and discipline. I will treat each of our days together like a word that builds a sentence, because sentences build paragraphs and paragraphs build complete works. A missing word leads one to assume the intention of the writer instead of the communication being clear. Every word will be a stamp of greatness and every stamp of greatness I create will be a word, better yet a work, because my mother and grandfather taught me the virtue of the process and the purpose and power of growing my faith in God through that process.

28, together we will be legendary.

Yours,
Tyler Paul Gilmore
born 11/23/1983 in Pasadena, CA to Doris and Timothy