Silver Beach, St. Joseph / Cindy La Ferle “Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer August 6, 2020I tend to feel more ambivalent about my birthday as I age. I’m grateful for my life — and all the people and animals I’ve loved. Yet I still experience a vague sense of melancholy, knowing that time is moving ahead quickly and will, eventually, leave me behind.Celebrating a birthday — your own or someone else’s — is especially poignant during a pandemic. Mortality stares us down daily on the…