Bohemian
on Cinco de Mayo…. What to wear, I asked myself as I stood in front of a closet full of nothing to wear. I have to stop myself from saying and thinking that as I am blessed beyond measure. As I slipped my outfit on, I can hear myDarlin’ Robert Kenui Pope say to me, ‘you look wonderful baby.’ Thank you myDarlin’.
Meetings, requirements, audiences, deployments and requests fill the day sprinkled with red chili pepper and green cacti confetti. A co-worker said to me, you are looking very Bohemian today and I just smiled. And as I left to meet my dear friends for dinner, the song Paved Paradise played in my head – so many jockeying for position on this paved ribbon that leads to our destination, and for many kindness escapes through the crack the window they rolled down for air, choosing to ignore fellow drivers only to arrive a couple minutes earlier and stressed at that. And I and so many others choose to let them in, knowing that our journey is enhanced by daily doses of small acts of kindness and consideration.
I arrive at the restaurant and have a glass of wine as I wait for my dear friends at the bar while he strums his guitar with the almost warm air of Spring spilling in through the open, oversized garage door that leads to a brick paved walk. And when I see them walk through the doorway, my heart leaps with joy! My friends, looking so radiant, so happy as they are living the dream. She said to me, you are looking very Bohemian today and I just smiled.
Our server has to be the most patient man ever as we spent over three hours talking, laughing, crying, reminiscing and eating. Our conversations danced about the wide open space like droplets of water in a fountain and are frozen in my mind as if caught on camera by a high shutter speed. Family, old cars, Elvis, gardening, stamps, Arizona deserts, Rolling Stones, Kona & myDarlin’, birthday parties, wine & tequila tastings, retirement and birthday parties, tanned skin, grandma arms and dance recitals fell into place as if stones on the walkway of life with God filling in all of the spaces between.
Bohemian - a socially unconventional person, especially one who is involved in the arts….. Am I the same as you or unconventional or is it all one and the same? For aren’t we all involved in the art of life?
Today, I am grateful for time spent with friends, for magical conversations of everyday, extraordinary, Bohemian life surrounded by God’s blessings.
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