All You Need is Love
1 If I had to send a Valentine to everybody I love, Hallmark would run out of cards!
2 You know how some people can multi-task?
3 I can multi-love!
4 I won't begin to name you, because all of you are a part of me, and in some postive way have brought tremendous amounts of love into my heart.
5 These past five years have been the roughest in my life. I've had an extraordinary amount of people leave my life. I've spent massive amounts of time in hospitals, smiling, and yet praying with everything I have that they stay with us, and always that they have no pain.
6 I have seen the human spirit soar to limits I never thought a person could reach, and overcome obstacles most of us would not even want to think about.
7 It has been trying. I have seen people leave this world way before it was time, and had to test my faith in asking, "Why?"
8 And while it shook me, and continues to shake me, I also received tremendous lessons watching how bravely people can go into illnesses, and with such passion and humor.
9 I am also amazed at how many people have given me kind words and letters and emails to help out.
10 It hasn't stopped. Last week I got to go to a "placement", and this weekend I have been invited to two more life celebrations.
11 And through all of it, I've had hummingbirds hover around wind chimes that suddenly move to one another, leaving wonderful sounds. I've looked to the sky and thought of how nice it would be if it would sprinkle, and it has sprinkled. I have had incredible miracles and coincidences that prove so much to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
12 As I got behind a caravan of cars after my Mom's viewing, All You Need is Love came on nice and loud in the TOOOOOONDRA. Driving through my old neighborhood and with the sun shining and the windows down, I broke into a huge smile. I looked up at the blue suburban skies of San Bruno and gave a wink.
13 A bluebird flew past.
14 Moving on, Part 1: Yesterday I came across some old poetry I had lying around, started reading some of it, and thought of how one gets poetry published.
15 I googled a few local published poets I've had the honor of meeting and enjoying pizza and beer with, but for the life of me I couldn't remember their last names! That happens to me a lot. AnywayZ, because I had done lights for them years ago when they came to Y.B., we had a grand session of jazz, percussion, lights, and poems before their evening recital.
16 Afterwards they invited me to go out to House of Pizza, and we laughed and talked about life, love, sports, and nearly anything else EXCEPT poetry!
17 So this morning I googled San Jose Poets.
18 The first thing to pop up was yesterday's DN!
19 That was my Mom, I'm quate, quate sure.
20 I tried it again, and realized it said, "1 result stored on your computer". Still, it really made me smile, because for one brief, shining moment, I thought I was the first guy on a Google search, and it was for local poets!
21 AnywayZ...
22 Moving Backwards, Part 1: I guess I want to return to my original thought this morning, and that is that I reserve my Valentine's to everybody I have ever met, because I can't think of anyone I have met whom I don't love in some fashion.
23 I say this because life is a learning process. Everything that happens teaches us something, and everybody then, is in some way a teacher.
24 We are all also learners. We really do help one another out, whether consciously or not. In that regard, we all deserve hundreds and thousands of Valentine's.
25 That is my gift to you this fine morning.
26 It's a couple of days early, but who's counting? I don't buy green bananas either.
27 We're off this week so there won't be another DN 'til a week from Mondeee. Enjoy your Valentine's Day, and enjoy this Valentine, which brings with it as much love as one person can send out.
28 Live life.
29 Love life.
30 I love you all, everything.
31 And all you need is love.
32 Peace.
~H~
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