What a difference one person can make. There's a reason It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic. A deep and profound message about the gift of each person’s life and PRESENCE in a particular moment and place relates how much difference a person makes in the world. Who would we be without our parents? Or best friend? Or our children’s bus driver or the mail man? Some people have significant place in our lives and hearts, having more than just a name or title. They are a piece of heart and mind.
Pandora Radio is one of my bookmarked websites as it offers to create a personalized radio station according to the songs/artists one desires. Recently, Scott Joplin playing the Entertainer came on and immediately I thought of my grandma. I played piano for several years but I took the most delight the year when I learned to play this song for my grandma. This was one her all time favorites on the ivories, so with great joy and her bursting pride did I perform it for her at my recital. To this day it’s the only song I still have memorized, at least in part. My grandma was my entertainer and delight-er as I grew up. No doubt did her presence inspired abundant and joyous giving, the subtle faux pas I have in speech every once in awhile, and the enthusiasm I have for life.
Robert Frost talked about the road less traveled by. Think about all the people who traveled that well trodden road and how their very steps influence his decision to go the other way. Or the few who went down his road to discover something new and challenging, maybe just in himself.
The people in our lives leave marks, leave voids when absent, leave lessons to be learned. I’m really appreciating this fact now in the midst of transition in work and at home. Of course, a time comes for all of the people to move as they do, the roads to be chose, and yet such circumstances make me appreciate the presence and mark people leave on me. Each of us are unique through a great weaving of inspirations, influences, and individuals’ shared stories.
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