“So far you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great!” ~ Unknown
kiwi surprise (snapseed)
I must be living right because Christmas in July continues straight into August. Earlier in the week my C.C. Grace CD arrived. So, imagine my surprise when, in today’s mail, I opened a package from my dear, dear friend Sharon Shearman to find this thrilling book and giant bar of chocolate. I really wish I could see Sharon. I so often miss her. You’ve never met a finer person than Sharon. She’s very conscientious of others, always has a kind word, and funny as all get out. We met when she was an exchange student from New Zealand working with Magg Jacobs at Glenmore Farm (a broodmare operation). I went to work with them at the September or November sales at Keeneland in 1998. We’re closing in on our twentieth year of friendship, and it feels like yesterday that we were schlepping 60 pound bags of horse feed through sweltering hot Kentucky paddocks. You talk about a hard worker, that’s Sharon. She’s small in size, but huge in heart and grit and toughness. Earlier this week, an even older friend, Ronnda Cadle, sent her three records, the last produced by famed musician and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. Ronnda and I go back even further than me and Sharon (I’m showing my age, I know). Like Sharon, Ronnda’s as sweet as the day is long. I listened to her soothing music all morning, and then, boom, here came Sharon’s surprises in the mail. I don’t know what I did to deserve so much kindness, but I sure am grateful for my friends near and far. I hope I never let them down.
Ronnda’s collection (snapseed)
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