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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:11

Passing the Speed Limit: A Collective Birthday Month Memoir

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It's September 2020. And this is my birthday month. And I had a thought about something that feels like collective memoir, where I take the month. And I reflect and I think about all the things going on in life in this particular month, kind of a compressed collection of ideas, inspirations, reasons for being. And I could do this in a sort of a diary with a pen. But I could also do it on Swell

I’m going to mark this birthday by being here, with you. https://s.swell.life/STQUya0pLFB2vlA #SwellTravelDiary #TravelPhoto

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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:32
And I realized it's because throughout my travels on the Internet, Facebook and Reddit different places. I've been oftentimes when someone submits their own song or and this is more to the point when they submit the song of some friend of theirs or something like that. It's not quite the same experience that I just had listening to yours. So now I sound like that judgmental, Linda. It's like I'll sit back on the Internet and determine who's talented, but I'm not doing that
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 2:02

https://www.shamengo.com/en/video/i-reveal-the-secret-life-of-water/

And I just love how it's like scientifically proven and researched, and I'll link to it. So I want to look at it again myself because I was reminded of that when I'm rising and choosing to be grateful and speak gratitude and speak love into the world. That our words, our thoughts are written word, what we write has power in our tensions, our prayers and everything has the power to form beauty and clarity and crystals out of water and ice. So thank you for sharing this
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@trisja
trisja malisoff
@trisja · 0:19
Have the greatest adventure. Mach One, Formula One pedal to other metal eyes on the road hard open whatever it is. But don't do anything I wouldn't do. I know. It's a short list. Bye
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@nabster2020
Natalie spiro
@nabster2020 · 1:42
I just want to wish you a beautiful journey, a deep journey Taking every moment as you go on your path for the things that you'll discover, the things that you'll see along the way, the things you'll just want to stop and stare at so that you really drop into to that deep, deep joy. I love you and I wish you a beautiful, beautiful hero's journey happy birthday
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@MeredithScott
Meredith Scott
@MeredithScott · 1:32
Hi, Deb. It's Meredith. It's Meredith who is going to miss you much. I'm so glad we got to hang in the in the yard last night and know you're going to be driving safely. And I know you're going to be pulling over to swell. And I know you're going to perfect thing you decided to do here, friend at 55. Take this little trip and time does not seem to be flying by quickly these days. Certainly not for me
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:05

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

And Deborah, you're not passing by any speed limits here. I think you're still very young. It's only how young at heart you are that really matters. So I think you're still extremely young at this point
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:54

Sep 2 : camping with Neil? http://bit.ly/SWELLNeil

And I have this fantasy of going camping with him one day, and I realized that it shouldn't be a fantasy. I should figure out a way in the next 40 years to camp with Neil Degrassi Tyson, so that's one of my birthday wishes, and maybe it will come true. So that's a thought for the day. Look forward to hearing some of yours. And it's day two of this September memoir. And I'm really excited to continue
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@Ali
Alice Carter
@Ali · 1:37
And I was trying to figure out the number of years we've known each other and loved each other. And I think I met 36. I think that might be it. Is that right? That's a long time. No more than that. Because you are in College anyway, long time ago. It's so great walking this path with you this life, all of our ups and downs. We get to keep sharing them with each other and always amazed at what you're doing
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:54

Sept 3: Ali=35 I was wrong just now, guitar riffs , ducks, breaking rules

I was playing guitar with somebody else and I was closing my eyes kind of riffing. I was just thinking about how beautiful my life has been because of music. And yet there's been periods really recently, actually, where I've been so judgmental of myself because I haven't grown musically the way I want it. And I'm kind of stuck at one level, and it does me no good in terms of that narrative in my head. It's so unproductive
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:47

Sept 4th: abs for my soul, floating, #surrender, if my socks could talk

As a swimmer, I feel like floating is that combo of surrender, but also control because you surrender because that's how you float. But then, in your mind, you know that you're in control or else you wouldn't be able to surrender. And that's sort of my thought for this beautiful. September 4 September 4 I said, that right this time
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:03

Sept 5: Mean : a song written 20 years ago- for today

Hey, September 5 birthday Journal continues sitting here with some old dear friends and thinking about a song I wrote 20 years ago called Mean and it still holds true today and I'm going to share it right now live from a dock in Fossilito. Here we go
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@topgold
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 1:35

@DBPardes Mean Dreams In the End https://bit.ly/sharmony

Deborah, the day that you sang as part of your birthday biography. Your collective biography. Same day that Ireland was listening to release of the vinyl edition of Irish Women in Harmony. It's a collaboration with dozens of Irish women musicians to help the domestic strife issue. So the proceeds from the sale of the song Dreams Dolores are reared and wrote it to Cranberries. Dolores grew up about 50 miles from where I'm sitting in County Chipperary
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@omaniblog
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 3:25
But I certainly am not always full of joy, but to come from a place of hope. Yeah. I persuaded myself that I could just about scrape onto the bar. I'm talking to you from Ireland. On my left hand side, there are young men kicking footballs around on one of these pitches. All weather pictures. They belong to a local football club. Got a dog, Louie. Well setter walking him and it's going to be wet today. Been a lot of rain recently
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:10

Sept 6th: Dreams 💿; dog walk in Ireland ; smoke gets in my eyes ( in CA)

But it's also a great exercise for me to plan and see if I could pull it off. So it's both. Anyway, thank you for joining in this collective memoir. It's not my memoir now it's our memoir. And here's two beautiful Sunday. And for those of you who are hearing this because you're a different time zone here's to a beautiful Monday, and I'll talk to you soon. Thanks
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@SeekingPlumb

Happy Birthday month & thanks!!

Happy Birthday Month Deborah, although I don't know you, I have to say that hearing your friends describe you and talk about how much they care about you has been absolutely beautiful. And it's nice to hear about this trip you're taking. And I really appreciate your authenticity, your reflections on the day, the week, and the thoughts you are thinking about. So just thanks for being you
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:26

Sept 7th: dog with short legs people with big hearts https://bit.ly/326UX8r

And this is really cute dog with really short legs. Looking at me, I'm just wondering, does the dog know it has short legs or did I just assume it has short legs but looks disproportionately like the legs seem like someone just it's like a painting when the person didn't study perspective and you're concerned about the dog anyway, happy Labor Day. I hope today is the day of not so much lifting for people heavy lifting in there physically or emotionally
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:11

Sept 8 celebrating the mutt! Walking experiments in being human

But I'm so happy that I'm a mutt and I might be a mutt. That is just the way I am because of combination of not just genetics but of lived experiences that only happened because of circumstances I was thrown in at different random times. So I guess for me I want to remember in this moment that we're all wonderfully imperfect and walking experiments of what it means to be human at any given time and being awake to the fact that it's not about belonging or not belonging
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@Riki
Erika Schon
@Riki · 2:01

Children will listen (and so will I)

Deborah, I am so behind on Swells, but I'm excited that you are having beautiful conversations for your birthday month. It's a special month here as well. Is the twins being born so August things for September. And I loved going back in time and listening to your songs. And I have to admit, I skipped around and didn't hear every swell and every response
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:44

Sept 9th : Riffing. A way of life. Let’s #dance

It's been a really dramatic 24 hours, lots of red skies, lots of fires, lots of wondering what's going to happen. But today it's really beautiful out there's, lots of starlings flying around in the sky, and it's going to clear up. It's going to clear up. See, I just started to sing. This is indeed the tradition in the folk world
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@SeekingPlumb

I love this; "celebrating the mutt"! @DBPardes

Deborah, I love this idea of celebrating the mud. And then when you're talking about the code and like when you think about it, the more messy that code is, the more places you can point out on the globe for where you know your ancestors have come from. You can also see that there's all of those adventures and experiences that have happened for all of those people as well, because without all of those different spots on the globe being touched in some way or another
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:17

Sept 10 The frame & the empty space inside it #hope is not a 4 letter word

I was just having a really interesting conversation with a dear friend about hope and sort of what it means in the context of even this particular collective memoirs that I'm putting together the idea of voices coming in line in this oral tradition where we sort of talk about life as it is and life as it might be, and the blindness of some people out in the world who feel like the only drug is hope that you have to always be positive and always kind of be this Pollyanna, that's painting a beautiful picture
@Linda
Linda Pardes
@Linda · 3:33
Deborah Bibi this is your loving sister driving down the coast of Haifa who also loves you looking at the Mediterranean. I'm sorry for the car noise in the background. Every second we are getting closer to just being here. I love the thought. I love all the music, Ali, the lyrics, the poetry of your beautiful song
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@topgold
Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 0:23

@DBPardes loving your riff

Deborah, Only my friends in California share images and moments of distance dancing. And that's special your simple riffs. And I love this thread on your birthday month. It's swell
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 4:13

Sept 11th deep breaths even when it hurts

Ultimately, after thinking I'd be gone for many more weeks in California because the air quality is so bad. And as I breathe in the smoke, I go back to Nine One One, and I think about all the frontline workers who are still dying from helping build that site back to where it needed to be. But first by plunging into the carnage and ruining their lungs and ruining so many other parts of their lives for being such heroes
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@DBWLCSWR
Dayle Brenner
@DBWLCSWR · 3:17
Oh, my God, that's how I am. But I'm not Irish, but I'm definitely grumpy and often very immature. But I digress because this is about our birthday girl. I salute you, birthday hero. I just want to mention a couple more people who made an impression on me. Yeah. Hi, Nat. That was so moving and so beautiful. And Barbara, Congratulations. Was it Barbara? Somebody just had twins. Oh, what a miracle, man
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:14

September 12 rolling through the roads

September 12, driving back from Philo, heading towards San Francisco, my plans were foiled. I was going to go to Shasta and spend three or four days kayaking for my birthday, going up to Arcada to see good friends, just rambling. And then I had to change my situation. But here I am, rambling through a beautiful country road. Listen to country music. It's super beautiful. And the sky is definitely not the blue sky, but it's going to clear away
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@stephc
Stephanie Clarke
@stephc · 0:42

On the occasion of your birthday!!!

Okay. My dear Deborah, it's almost your birthday. And I am posting this because I don't want you to go over the speed limit, okay? Because that means that I'm going to get a ticket anyway. I love you. And I hope you're okay and that you're enjoying yourself during this September. And on the occasion of your birthday, I think this is really calling for another visit. So please come back down. This way. I and we'll hang. Okay?
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@Neerja
Neerja Narayanan
@Neerja · 2:30

Sing your hearts truth on this years turning

But all the gardens of spring and summer were blooming in other tall tales beyond the border and under the Lark full cloud there could I Marvel my birthday away but the weather turned round and there could I Marvel my birthday away but the weather turned round and the true joy of the long dead child sang Burning in the Sun It was my 55th year to heaven stood there other in the summer noon through the town below lay leaved with September blood O may my heart's truth still be sung on this high heel in a year's turning that's one of my favorites and especially the last three lines which is my wish for you on this landmark birthday which is just this oh, may my heart's truth still be sung on this high heel in a year's turning lots of love, my dear stay safe
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:36

Sept 13 happy birthday!!!!! 💡🌱🦒❤️

It's September 13. I was born 55 years ago. I'm alive today to talk about it. It's a great day connecting with lots of good, beautiful souls, really enjoying the unknown right now and loving that I have this moment to just not do much except look out into life and observe. And happy birthday to me
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@Dance
Holly Rothschild
@Dance · 0:09

Happy Birthday

Deborah, I love you just saying, Happy Birthday. And I also, I got you a pony
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 0:09

Happy B’Day Deb! From my kids and me 🎂

Happy birthday, Deborah. Happy birthday, Deborah. Happy birthday, Deborah. For my kids and for me. Wish you a fabulous year ahead
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:22

Happy happy birthday

Thereby Singh horrible. But for you, I'm gonna give this a shot so forgive me if I got this wrong. I learned this from YouTube, but here we go. How are you on your
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@omaniblog
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 1:22
That's a really big thing that I'm going to remember you for. And I also celebrate with you, I realize. But I do celebrate the way in which you're approaching this month of September and elongating it's significance
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:17

Sept 14: sisters and 15 nieces and nephews #family

And it's like a garden. And during these times when so much struggle is happening where people are wondering, should we have kids because of the Earth's resources and because of the pain and suffering that's around us, sometimes you shake your head and go, no. And then other times you look at these magnificent people born into the world and they bring light and hope and ideas and art and wackiness and humor and love
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@DBWLCSWR
Dayle Brenner
@DBWLCSWR · 0:42
This post about your appreciation for your nieces and nephews and your sisters is so beautiful. I don't even want to try to punctuate it with a long report fly. I just want you to know that I loved it. I love you. They are also very fortunate to have you in their lives, as their aunt, as their great aunt, and as their siblings keep shining on the world. Deborah, you are a force and a blessing to us all
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