Just a quick post to say that Lady M, amazing jazz and R&B singer, is cautiously on the mend from her liver transplant. She has a chance for a fresh start. And I ask all out there to send her your loving and supportive thoughts. You won't be sorry when she has healed and begun singing again. .
I don't know the circumstances of the person whose life is over--giving her a second chance. But as her friend and admirer who wants to hear her sing and sing and sing, I am grateful to that person.
We all get second chances. Sometimes they come as shocks, as sorrows, as if the world as we know it has ended. They come to us unbidden or even against our will. They come to us whether we want them or not. The test of character, of self-belief, of faith in an unseen future, is meeting those chances with an open and believing heart. Of moving into an unknown future, when all is murky, miasmic, when the next stepping stone in the path seems to hang over thin air and the way forward is dark. I am not a believer in fate--too much predestination indoctrination in the ARPs as a child turned me off on that score--but I am a believer in trusting to your deepest inner voice/direction/light to show where the next step or steps forward might be and who else is there to travel the path together.
Robert Frost taught us years ago about the road less traveled and how taking it makes all the difference.
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