Life goes on

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted anything. So many things have happened recently, some very important to me and many more simply transitory and fleeting. I won't remember most of them a few months from now.
But what I have learned is that I am very grateful for the deep connections to a few people that I have in my life. Those connections bring mostly comfort, sometimes a wake up to reality when they call to my attention my self centeredness or my callous disregard toward them, and sometimes sadness. But what would life be without them?
Every time I walk Coco I listen to the Vespers service recorded by the Catholic nuns who live in the convent on Country Club. At the end of the service they always remember those whose lives are closely linked to them. I am grateful for that because it prompts me to also remember the deep connections I have. Remember in the Hebrew sense - remembering is not just recalling, it is re-living, it is bringing to consciousness and giving meaning to those deep connections today and now. What a gift!