Each year of all my years in Texas when the Bluebonnets bloomed in the spring, I had the urge to go and lay down in that field, feel their beauty and gaze in to the blue sky overhead. A couple of times, riding my bike in the country, I did exactly that. The feeling then and the memory now is exhilarating. That is how I feel too about all the people over my 83 years who have touched my very good and happy life. So far, in the Corona crisis we are all experiencing, I am well. In fact, with a new workout regime, feeling better than I've felt in years. But, with the uncertainty of this, maybe the most difficult time each of us have ever faced, I wanted to share my appreciation of each and every one of you .
Facebook and personal friends alike, many being in both categories, I want to thank you for being in my life. And I wish for each of you a future healthy life.
Whether you have been among those who shared with me a close personal friendship, shared with me my journey through school, college and the military, or in friendship through my 46 years of my first love. I'm grateful for you.
If we labored together through a journey through and out of the Catholic church, thank you for being there for me. If we parented together in our early years of marriage, I so appreciate you. If our relationship was around social activism and political reform, being in the trenches with you was so gratifying, through success and failure. We dealt together with uncertainty then as we do now and reinforced one another.
If our relationship was around career and professional and business pursuits, you provided such amazing inspiration to me. If we engaged together in our neighborhood and community, thank you for being there for me.
Should we have connected a result of my new life with the second great love of my life in the past 13 years of personal and geographic adventure, you'll never know how much support and enrichment I've gained from our being together.
Each of you have provided me love, affection, respect, sometimes harsh truth and the certainty that I have not been alone in this journey. I hope I have been able to give back to you in the same way you were so generous in your support for me.
Wishing each and all of you a fruitful and satisfying journey.
