Celebrate moments / The human condition

Celebrate life and share. Today is the birthday of my best friend. He is no longer able to celebrate in person - because he has moved on. However, that doesn't keep me from celebrating for and with him. Although, I had started typing this blog at 11:41 pm, at 11:53 pm I took a break to submerse myself, literally, in the creek 200 feet away. At minight, in the beginning of January one doesn't usually find many people in the creek. As I looked up into the stars, from the cold water, I felt connected and at peace. I celebrated a moment for my friend and was very alive at that moment and the feeling stills lingers.

As I had started to say earlier, I am most fulfilled when helping to nuture, support and lift others. Curiously, I am noticing more public awareness, groups and organizations that are developing and declaring they want to help others as well. Maybe there is a threshold that is starting to be reached by our more global society to face our self-centered cultures and begin to reflect on the larger mankind. Recently, I have had both local and long distance clients bring up subjects of social consciousness and the greater good.

The clincher was an email I just received responding to a business question I had. Then another email, from the same sender, immediately followed that included a slide presentation. He explained that this presentation had been done for his friends this Christmas season. His touching and poignant presentation depicted human nature, the human spirit and the need we all have for compassion, introspection and the divine. People with messages like this need to stay in the gene pool to ensure that the voices of reason, decency and goodness in the human spirit are shared and spread. When we find some thing that was created through loving effort, for the benefit of others, we should say thanks and then consider how we can do the same.