Chapters

Everyone we meet whether a cause of joy or sorrow or strife writes another chapter into our book of life. I met Phil and Lee when they were in their eighties. They were one of the sweetest couples I've ever met and though they both died long ago…their's is a chapter I'll never forget. I thought about them yesterday…my good friends Phil and Lee a thought triggered by a song…as that is the wonder of memory. I immediately stopped what I was doing…stopped by their memory and flipped back through my book of life…to read the chapter on Phil and Lee. And though, as I get older, the writing sometimes seems a little blurred when I found the chapter on Phil and Lee…I savored every word. I found that as I read this chapter from a distance…from afar It was filled mostly with joy…but with a touch of sorrow… as I'm sure most chapters are. Is that not the beauty of each chapter in our book of life whether we search them out…or something random generates a thought for the moment we revisit them……we revisit all the feelings that they brought? I have a wish for everyone as this current chapte's being written as we watch our country bleed… Take a moment every now an then to leaf through your book of life and find a chapter you'd like to read. Your own chapter…your own pages find your own Phil and Lee To remind you not only of a happier time… but also how all chapters end…eventually. And to remind you there is a balance in these moments that we share for as friends and family write a chapter in our life… we are writing one in theirs.