This is kind of follows that last one…

I went out this morning for my usual walk on the beach. I reach in to grab my ipod so that i can turn it on full blast and drown out everything around me… i get it all strapped on my arm, my keyes put away, sunglasses on, alarm set… ready to go. Ipod on… noooooooo!!!! the battery is totally dead. What the bleep bleep bleep? .. hahahaha (family blog) Now what am i going to do? I walk for at least an hour and today i was adding millage?! So, i oh so carefully tear it off (smile) and throw it in the car and just strap my phone to my arm instead. hahahahahha You KNOW that i do not go anywhere without THAT! After a little while walking i call my girlfriend to see if she wants to join me, she can’t, but we continue to chat… what else am i gonna do? (smile) Anyway, i get under the pier and this man, looking a little lost and holding a cane that i can barely see, starts talking to anyone that will listen. I tell my friend to hang on a sec to hear this man to find out that he does in fact need help…. he is blind and is looking for the pier?! I hang up my oh so important call and walk over to meet the sweetest man EVER. He was staying at the Crown Plaza and they directed him towards the pier… he knew that he was close but had not realized that he was under it. So we exchanged names and i walked him over to the stairs… SUCH a nice man… ok… we went our seperate ways.. he to the pier and me on my walk… on my way back, i could not get him out of my head. So i decided to go up on and see if he was still there. He was. He was sitting on one of the benches, reading. I sat down with him for a while and we talked. His wife was in conferences for the day, so he is the lucky one to enjoy walking and reading on our beachfront. They are from New Mexico, so you can imagine the weather difference.

After we said our good-byes, and i was left with my thoughts. I just smiled with the memory of his kind face and the knowledge that if i had my ipod on… there is NO WAY that i would have heard him. I would like to think that i would have been aware enough to acknowledge him… but i really don’t know…. sometimes i think new growth starts on sundays when you are reminded that it is needed and it is reinforced when you least expect it… like the next day (smile)

i love you all
have a good night…