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Moments revisited 
Doug Cartland
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01/05/2016

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Before the holidays I wrote to you about moments. These meaningful flashes in life that we treasure, more valuable than any dollar we can make. I challenged you to find them. I wrote:
In the midst of all of your workaday business and the holiday hustle and flurry, in the midst of all the stuff, I hope you find these moments. They are the substance that stays with us forever.
Well? Did you find them?
Here are three of mine:
Moment #1:
I drove up to the funeral home dumbfounded. The parking lot was packed.
This was days before Christmas. I wrote to you about Sean last May. He managed an old bar/restaurant I visit a couple of times a month. I've told you about this place several times.
Sean had cancer. He died December 11th at the early age of 59.
A week later I pulled up to his visitation. There had to have been 400-500 people that came and went. Astonishing how many.
Sean ran a bar. That's all he did.
After the funeral there was a gathering at that bar. You could barely move, bodies wedged in snug. I met Sean's daughter. Delightful.
I looked over the crowd as "You Are My Sunshine" played on the jukebox. People milling, tipping a few, laughing, remembering their friend, the sunshine that had been taken away.
At the visitation there was a video screen that scrolled through the happy parts of Sean's life. A joke up on the screen read:
A priest got up to address the gathering at an Irish funeral. Very solemnly he asked all the married men to step forward. He then asked them to go stand by the person that had meant the most to them in their lives. The bartender was almost trampled to death.
Yeah, Sean would have loved it all.
Moment #2:
My daughter was vacationing in Florida for three weeks. At the last minute my work schedule opened up and I was able to join her for a few days.
My second night there she asked me if I wanted a Corona. I said sure. She popped a couple, sliced off two wedges of lime, stuffed them down the bottles' throats and handed me one.
We walked across the street to the beach. We chatted as we watched the sunset.
A gentle surf, sand between my toes, a Corona in my hand, laughing and shooting the breeze with my daughter as the sun went down on a Florida beach. Not bad.
Moment #3:
Christmas Day.
My siblings and I are of a certain age that we don't give presents to each other anymore. Most of our kids now too. So my sister, Mary, had an idea for a new tradition.
She had the idea that we all bring a cash donation for a charity to the family party. We'd also bring the name of one of our favorite charities written on a slip of paper. We would pool the money and put all the charities names in a hat. We'd draw one and that charity would get all the money.
And so we did.
The organization that won was a small ministry in Chicago that feeds the poor.

Good enough.
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