toast from on top of the world

well... from the 19th floor with a 360 degree view of the glittering lights of Caracas... you can easily make it down in time from San Diego...

It's a beautiful day chica, its your birthday and the sun is shining!! XXXXX

Cumpleaños Feliz,

Cumpleaños Feliz,

Te Desee-aamos Tooodoooos

Cumpleaños Feliz!!

Feliz Cumple tía!!!!!!   

I'm sure you've got everything you need up in the great big blue... and what Heaven hasn't got, you'll invent.  

Robin and I will toast you tonight at Wine Steals, 7pm WST.   You probably have a lot of toasts to attend around the world, but if you wanna stop in for a minute, our hearts and smiles will be looking your way.  

And oh, 

Thanks for continuing the magic.   (and for the laptop, of course!)

amor amor amor!    Andy. 

Happy Birthday!

Ah, my love. It's your birthday! I hope you're showered with love and presents, and that all your wishes come true—over and over again.

Katja and I toasted you this morning at Clinton Street Bakery, over a plate of huevos rancheros. It wasn't quite as good as Schiller's, but Schiller's doesn't open early enough to have breakfast and still get Kat to work on time! My band toasted you last night at Banjo Jim's—at midnight, as the clock ticked into the official start of your birthday. I sang and played all your favorite songs. Though they asked us to keep the volume down a bit, I sang loud and proud. I know you heard, and danced, and laughed, and sang along.

Loving you today, tomorrow, and ever after,
~Adam

P.S. Thanks for sending the beautiful butterfly to Eric's house at Christmastime. We were all overjoyed—and *very* impressed.

In Australia its already your birthday!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Miiiiiaaaaaaaa

Happy Birthday to youououououo

Wish you were here guapa xxxxx hope there's plenty of cake in heaven!

Big love and thoughts going out to you Nina on this special day.

Thanks for bringing this beautiful and special woman into all out lives!

Walking to your trees, wedding morning, Jan 2nd

Sometimes it just feels like you are on the other side of world as you always have been. There are so many pictures I want to send you Mi, why don't they have email where you are?? ... I think maybe you are still seeing them, your 'eye' always on us, eh chica?! I know in some ways you are gone but you still feel close, make me giggle, make me proud and spur me on. Missing you chica, so much, every day. Besitos xxxx

Guapa

Soon its your birthday, the date has been creeping up on me and I spot it in my calendar every time I open it. As always my heart drops with the sense of loss and then bounces back up with just the memory of you, your face and your smile. Last year for your birthday you were in Washington, as you put it 'hanging out with congressmen and senator reps!' You'll always be beautiful and 33 to us loca. Missing you as always and loving you mucho xx

Christmastime.

Dear Mia,

It’s mid December, and days are starting to feel wintry. The weather is getting chilly and crisp, the daylight hours fewer and fewer. I’m missing you now more than ever. Winter season always gave us another excuse to cuddle, to cook up a pot of hearty stew, to find a nearby bar with a fireplace—for more cuddling.

Christmas is just around the corner. I’m going to spend it in Denmark with your family, who are now my family too. Seems like just a minute ago you and I were there together for Christmas—riding the Hans Christian Andersen ride at Tivoli, then warming our hands and faces over the Dong Energy heaters; enjoying time with Claus & Thomas and Tobias, and with Maja & Mads and the girls. Was that really two whole years ago? This Christmas season will be a doozy—with a big lunch planned at Café Petersborg in Copenhagen, then Christmas days and eves with Eric & Hilde and the girls in Fünen. Looks like I’ll get to meet Pia and her family on this trip too. I’m so looking forward to all the hugs and smiles and stories and photos we’ll all share, and I hope you’ll understand if there’s a tear or two.

I’m on tour now, with Amber Rubarth—a plan you put in motion over a year ago when you suggested she and I record an album together. It’s finally done and dusted, and we’re touring the south to spread the word about it. The southland has been kind to Amber and me. Lots of friendly faces at our gigs, more sunshiny days than we’d expected, sweet visits with my cousins on days off in Decatur, and of course southern food—barbecue, shrimp & grits, and Brunswick stew. Wish you were here. You’d be loving the food, or at least marveling at it, and you'd be taking in all the sights as well—snapping photos of the Spanish moss drooping off the trees in Savannah, the vintage neon signs in Memphis, and all the light-and-shadow play everywhere in the morning and early evening. And then there'd be some more cuddling...

I’ve got to sign off now. It’s time to get back on the road with Amber. I’ll write again soon.

Sending you love with every beat of my heart, today and all the days that follow.

~Adam

Guapa, Guapa y Guapa

Christmas is just around the corner and I was remembering my New York Christmas with Mia. We hung out by the fire, she had her fluffy hooded parker and duck boots to always keep her warm. We had awesome crab at Central Station with Adam. Mia took us to the Chelsea markets. We had a Blast! Missing you as always loca.