/tags/yorkville-neighborhood/Recent content in Yorkville-Neighborhood on Late BloomsHugoen-usSun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000/posts/celebrating-life/Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000/posts/celebrating-life/<p><em>Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.</em> <br> <em>- <strong>Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</strong></em></p> <p>[caption id=&ldquo;attachment_2081&rdquo; align=&ldquo;aligncenter&rdquo; width=&ldquo;584&rdquo;]<a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2014/Celebrating-life/i-XLfsN6B/0/Ks68WJQX8dk8mPJb75Qw7xZb2m9qvtzrJCVdkN5kD/D/Sassafrasz-1-with-frame-for-blog-food-D.jpg"><img alt="“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sassafrasz-1-with-frame-for-blog-food-1024x587.jpg"></a> “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach[/caption]</p> <p>Celebrating life whenever we have the opportunity and savoring all the special moments is an opportunity we should never pass up.  Sixty-fifth and seventieth birthdays have their own blessings - because we didn&rsquo;t ever expect to live this long.  To wait for a child to be present for the celebration who also had a birthday we were not present for is a gift beyond words.  &ldquo;<em>Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.&rdquo; (Jean Anouilh)</em>  Our enjoyable celebration took place at Sassafraz in the Yorkville area of  downtown Toronto.  We savored the food, each other, and the passage of time.</p>