I learned this morning about my dear former associate who is on a feeding tube with dementia and multiple cancers. In addition to our years working together,we played music together, in our off hours. I hear her playing, one of her cousins original tunes, which was entitled Tap Dancing on the Moon.
When we parted ways, I left our Midwestern association to follow the path of yoga around the world. Along the way, I stopped to fulfill her projection of me as “future Dr. McGraw” which she called me when I had only my first Masters degree. I am wrapped in my memories of her, which I wear like the cloak she gifted me decades ago, and pray to mother Mary seven times a day, making sure to invoke God Almighty, not just any old God, as she insisted during our last visit.
How do you honor those who have influenced your path? When you’ve parted ways, what do you bring with you? Ki to Happiness sings the old songs and prays.