Happy Birthday, Leonard!

[zodkavombie]

Monsieur Cohen, wishing you a very, very happy birthday and look forward to hear news of a coming tour????
Victorine

[LisaLCFan]

Dearest Leonard,

Happy Birthday! May your year be filled with all the little things you really like!

With much love,
Lisa

[st theresa1]

Only a week until your birthday and if you are at all like I think you are, it will be a rather quiet affair. Still--I do want to wish you another year of good health, happiness, and enjoyment of the things that make living worth it. Perhaps a dear friend will bake you a cake, if that is what you like, or serve you a glass of your favourite beverage with figs and cheese. Maybe you will listen to some great music on the radio --if you still listen to the radio. I wonder if CBC will play a song for you. They ought to! Whatever it is, however, and with whomever, dear Leonard and many happy returns.

[TipperaryAnn]

Thanks for the songs, Mr. Cohen!
And for the poems, the words of wisdom, and those joyous concerts.

I suspect you will be glad to have a quieter birthday this year - you did say "You need in life a mixture of solitude and carnival", so I hope next Wednesday and the years to come bring you just the right mixture of both!

[MaryB]

Dear Mr. Cohen,

May your birthday wishes all come true.

Grateful regards,
George & Mary

[koho]

Leonard will be 77 on September 21.
This thread is for birthday greetings!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU LEONARD THE BEST AND MUCH MORE ***

[holydove]

Dear Leonard,

The moment the exquisite elixir of your Voice entered my heart 42 years ago began the most incredible, powerful & beautiful journey of my life. I am forever grateful to you for sharing the treasures of your brilliant Art, through which you have taken me to all those wondrous places.

I thank all the forces that be for the gift of your birth into this world & for your presence in my life.

May your life be filled with infinite joy & love.

Happy Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen

Love Always,

Rachel B.

P.S.: I miss you

[mydoglorca]

Dear Leonard

Thank you so much for the music & words we have loved for so many years now.

For your birthday & the coming year we wish you health, happiness, joy & love.

We hope you will pass our way again.

J & J

[jeremek]

Happy Birthday, Leonard !

Thank You for the lesson in patience and love, the most important lesson of my life ...
Let's God and inspiration will be with You always.

With love,
Beata

[phillip]

Happy Birthday Leonard Have a great day, I was at The Chelsea Hotel the other day and took lots of photos was thinking of you and singing Í remember you well in The Chelsea Hotel to myself! anyway have a great day Leonard and thankyou for all your awesome books and albums

love

phillip

[evelyn]

Happy Happy Birthday to you, Leonard!!!

Thanks for the music and the words that changed my life..looking forward to the next concert!

All good things,
evelyn

[anneporter]

To Leonard Cohen
on the occasion of your 77th birthday:

Thanks for teaching me about the harmonious beauty
of the commonplace;
about the “crack[s] in everything”
and “how the light gets in;”
and for sharing your “love for all things:”
“...the objects on the table
Such as candlesticks and ashtrays
And the table itself.”

You taught me to love the coffee cups,
the wine stems,
the thorns and the roses,
and the taps of the kitchen sink;

and to “comprehend the sudden mercy
which floods the room
And dissolves it now
In the traditional golden light...”

while knowing about transience
and the ephemeral,
and that “it is light enough
to let it go...”

Thank you for leading me
to the friends I have made on the forum
and for drawing us together in the resplendent light of Hydra.

Thank you for singing your way all around the world.

Thank you for teaching me to see beauty with the eyes of the heart,
and for lending me the words with which to speak of it.

Here is my birthday gift to you, with the words of Bob Dylan
and the voice of Kitty Wells,
some photos celebrating light, life and love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ0PvBHLIYg

“MAY YOU ALWAYS KNOW THE TRUTH
AND SEE THE LIGHT SURROUNDING YOU
AND MAY YOU BE FOREVER YOUNG!”

sincerely,
Anne Porter

[Tchocolatl]

Mr. Cohen, your couple of lucky seven and some old ideas later I still don't find the words to explain you as a phenomenon, so I should stop to try, but I won't.

Happy Birthday and I wish you a long long life, peace to live long, and Love to enjoy everything.

Thank you for all the magical moments already created and many Encore! to come.

[joyezekiel]

I feel so privileged to be able to wish you a Happy Birthday. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Love Joy x

[lonndubh]

Happy Birthday Leonard
The Japanese say "The celebration of one’s 77th birthday is an example of ga no iwai. Age 77 is the “joyous year,” and to live until that age is indeed fortunate. The Japanese characters for kiju literally mean “joy” and “long life.”

So here's wishing you joy and long life.