The Greatest Gift....

Many websites now offer wish lists for you to use to attain something material. Yet, I think in our own daily lives we may keep a wish list in our hearts about somehing we hope to find someday.A sense of inner peace has always been on mine.

Now I'm sure you are saying to yourself, 'What's this? Inner peace? Where's the goofy antics? The madcap Pratt comedy that usually clutters the daily posts here?'
"It came without packages...boxes ..or bags...!"( ok that was a Grinch shout-out)I have something serious to say but may throw in a dash of humor.

Time to turn back the clock. ok, now turn it back some more...ok now a little more..no! Too much- you forgot a leap year and a Daylight's Savings Time..and oh nevermind let me do it...It's 1986.


I had met a girl.Yeah, me ...imagine that."Once there was a day..we were together all the way.."as Heaven 17 once sang. For about two years on and off we were a couple. It ended badly. Very badly. Because of me. Immature behavior. General stupidity.

One of the big regrets I had kicking around my soul was not setting things right with her.We never had closure. The last meeting was a random meeting on the streets of New York City in 1988. Eight million people and I run into her outside of Penn Station. It was a horrible farewell.As she walked away I didn't think I would ever see her again.

Ok so some of you are saying,"Oh, pipe down Dr.Phil." but seriously. Bad feelings were out there. Great hurt and loss.On both sides. I have had great regret over this.

Time passes. A lot of time passes.The 80's, the 90's, the Millenium..I think I saw Marty McFly pass me in a flying car.Welcome to 2004.

She found me. She found this blog and knew right away it was silly old me. She bravely said hello.Wow, that took a lot of stones. I am shocked she did after sixteen years.

I said hello back and gave a big apology for the actions of when I was a stupid little boy who didn't know anything about relationships or feelings or about much of anything.I was quite a different person in the 80's than I am now.

We caught up with our lives today. Talk of spouses and children...well, the bunnies for me.. What we've accomplished in life and how different things have turned out for us. We have put the old business aside and are now friends.

John Lennon was right. "War is over... if you want it..."

And so Happy Christmas...I think the greatest gift I got this year so far was a little bit of inner peace. A little bit of my soul.A little bit of redemption.