HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!

[Fljotsdale]

Happy birthday, Leonard. You just keep getting better.

You still have the most seductive voice - both spoken and singing - that I ever heard.

[Neophyte]

Happy Birthday, Dear Leonard!!

Wish I could give you a gift as wondrous as you gave us with your amazing tour! Wish I could give you all the inspiration and joy you give me as I play your music over and over! But all I can do is wish that for you and thank you for the light you have let into my life. What a thrill to see you in Montreal and fall in love with your hometown! Hope to be able to do that again but would love to welcome you to Wisconsin, too!

Thank You and Very Best Wishes for Your Tour and Your Forever!!

[Tchocolatl]

Happy Birthday!

You are as amazing as this last summer day of this year, here. Your magic is renewing itself endlessly and with this particularity that it happens often just when one is thinking there is no magic in this world anymore. Thank you again for everything. I Love you very much.

[Lady Midnight]

Happy birthday Leonard, I will be so happy to see you again in november in Paris after 15 years !
And take care of yourself, we still need you and your music and your words for a long time !
With love

[magdam]

Happy Birthday to You, dear Leonard Cohen!!!
Many happy returns of that day!

Thank you very much for your poetry and songs.
Thank you for the wonderful concert in Helsinborg. I felt very happy while listening to you and your songs there. And I was very honoured to have been given your autograph and chance to have a photo with you. Thank you.

I am waiting impatiently for the concert in Warszawa

Love,

Magda

[MFL]

Breithlá shona duit!

Happy Birthday!

Go raibh míle maith agat.
Thank you very much.

[niffin]

Happy Birthday, Leonard! Grattis på födelsedagen!

Just wishing you all the best !

And thank you.

[Roro]

Happy Birthday Leonard

Thank you for all the joy your music and words have given me over the last 22 years. Thank you also for a fantastic concert in Dublin on 15th June.

Best Wishes and Lots of Love
Ro
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[friscogrl]

Happy Birthday Leonard!
I hope you are having the
time of your life!

Marsha

[richargroulx]

Happy Birhtday Dear Mr. Cohen.

Thanks for the gift of your music that brighten my days.

Live long and prosper.

Richard Groulx
http://picasaweb.google.com/picture.trip

[lightning]

Dear Leonard,
Congratulations on the 74th anniversary of your expulsion from your mother's uterus! If you survived that, you can do anything.

Lightning

[Caren]

Happy Birthday Leonard.

Thank you for the beauty of your music.

May the year ahead be a good one. All the best to you.

[jarkko]

From Leonard in Bucharest:

Thank you so much for your good wishes, your encouragement, and your blessings.
They are deeply appreciated.

Leonard

[leonardmtl]

An Interpretation.

The illustration in Leonards's message contains connected hands and a "shiin" in the center of the unified heart. This also stands for shaddai, the Hebrew name for G-d
A kohen ( priest), which is Leonards heritage, traditionally has his hands form this letter shiin, as he recites the Priestly Prayers.

That prayer is as follows:

May the Lord bless you and guard you – יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה, וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ
May the Lord shine His countenance toward you and be gracious to you – יָאֵר יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וִיחֻנֶּךָּ
May the Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace – יִשָּׂא יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם


I cannot express how moved I am by this respectful, humble way for LC to acknowledge the outpouring from this forum . ...and to implore G-d to bless us, to guard us, to be gracious to us and give us us peace:

It doesn't get any better!

Extraordinary!


Leonard from Montreal

[mydoglorca]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEONARD - BELATED

We hope you had a wonderful day & send our very best wishes for this tour.
We will see you again in Cardiff, Bournemouth, Birmingham & Manchester.

Jill and John.......plus our new dog- his name Leonard, of course!