1st week of March, 2014
There sure are a lot of people
in New York City and the subways sure are crowded, and sometimes you can’t
even get a seat, not even on the bus! But if I can stop complaining for a minute I can
look around and begin to wonder, who are these people? Might even be a lot of
interesting folks up to something. If I can stop complaining for a minute, I can begin to imagine and get in touch with what it takes to be who we are and the extraordinariness of us!
I got to admire the guy who gets up every day, the same time, day after day, to go to work. That takes something. Maybe he’s doing it for the
money, and maybe not. But it takes something to honor your word and show up,
just because you said you would. And the mother, who decided, or maybe not, to
become a mother, and once the toddler arrived, she has to feed it, dress it,
and try to understand it, day after day, teaching it how to be a person in this
wild, wild world we live in. That takes something. And then there are those who
work out in the cold, and those who work out in the heat, and under the ground,
and in very high places, and those that box themselves up in an office, and
those who are confined to being at home. We sure are a special breed, making it
all work. And then there are those who besides doing their due diligence, they’ve
got big plans for the planet. And we might be standing right next to them on
line at the supermarket or sitting next to them at the local restaurant, and we
have no idea. And if we knew what they were up to we’d be in awe, ‘cause they
look just like you and me, they ARE you and me! We sure are a special breed!
