Birth Day

If we are to begin to catalogue, collect, and compile that which strikes us - then the best place to start may be with Ms. Parker's own "Inventory."

"Inventory"
by Dorothy Parker

Four be the things I am wiser to know:

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:

Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:

Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.