Birthday Ritual

So I led a ritual on my birthday this past year, which happened to coincide with New Moon and Rosh Hashanah. However, since I didn't write down the meditations before I led them, the document has sat on my hard drive waiting for me to graduate so I could justify spending time to remember them and put the fingers to the keys. So now that we're in a new year yet again, I give you the Rosh Hashanah/Birthday ritual. While I think most of it was fairly clever and inspired, of general interest is a summary of my first 24 years of life as quarter calls. It follows thus:

South

Baby Trevor, blond-haired boy,
Excited by everything,
Lover of the library,
Intricate imaginary identities,
Too creative for Crestview,
Reading rigorously.


West

Alternative education, Uni Hill,
Sensitive student, often sick or hurt,
Surrounded by sports statistics,
Aware, annoyed, advocating action,
Penmanship-challenged Procrastinator,
Mathematical master, methodological mediator.


North

Denying dairy helped health,
Local leader, learned language, unix user,
Exciting education experiment evolving,
Growing geekery: great games, perl programming,
Super student, college calculus, socratic seminars,
Philosophy, feelings, contemplating college, moved mornings.


East

Understanding university, finding features,
Increased involvement, finding friends,
Exciting election, fellow philosophers, are you RA?
Totally TITAN, encouraging engineers, holding hands with heathens,
Goodness gracious graduate school, unfinished undergraduate urges,
Work, wanderlust, wonder where next.