Prior to my little incident last week... Flagstaff got a little snow over the weekend. I came home and as I was walking up to my apartment, I saw a neighbor walking out to their car with a small ice scrapper and a broom. I paused, watching to see which car they went to. Needless to say, their car was "snowed in." The ice scrapper and broom was not going to be enough to free the car. There was a 2 to 3 foot burm behind the car from the plow, that their front-wheel-drive vehicle was not going to be able to break through...

I went into my apartment, told Sadie to wait, and grabbed my snow shovel. I went back out to help my neighbor. I broke down the burm, shoveled out the wheels (front, back, and in between) and made a path to the driver's side door. It took me about 20 minutes. My neighbor thanked me. I told them, "no problem, any time you need help, just knock on my door." They haven't taken me up on the offer yet, but then again... it hasn't significantly snowed again... yet...

A small, random act of kindness... or was it a big, essential intervention? How did my action affect my neighbor? Did it get them through? Did it make their day? Perhaps they thought that they got a poor sap to help them? To me, it doesn't matter! I did what I needed to do, at the time that I needed to do it! Remember, I seem to be in certain places, at certain times, for certain reasons...

So ... that was almost a week and a half ago. A lot has transpired since then! I was injured at work, I survived a short week at work, I spent a full day in a class on Saturday, went down to Phoenix to spend a day with my daughters, and now I'm back at work...

More importantly, I read a book that a friend gave to me! She gave it to me some time ago, and I am ashamed to say, I finally read it... however, I am proud to say that once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down!

Cover to cover! I read it in less than 24 hours! I laughed, I cried, snickered, laughed, and cried some more!

So to all of you who are following this blog, those that might happen upon it, and to those that accidently click on something that brings you here...I love you! It is in the relationships that we create, nuture, and grow that ultimately matters!