{"id":1555,"date":"2013-08-11T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T22:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2013-08-11T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T22:37:49","slug":"just-enough-rain-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2013\/08\/11\/just-enough-rain-for-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Enough Rain for Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lunch<\/a><\/p>\n

Had anyone told me I would be quoting Steven \u201cDude looks like a lady\u201d Tyler I would have said they were smoking what he smokes\u2026the thing is he\u2019s got this when he says \u201cIf you have a candle, the light won\u2019t glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have been the recipient of more generosity than I ever could have imagined. \u00a0From my family, from my family, from my family especially my Father.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have much, he didn\u2019t know much but he shared everything from stories to lost dreams to insight to the yolk from his over easy eggs salted just perfectly to wint-o-green lifesavers.\u00a0 We spoke a similar language that only we could understand.<\/p>\n

So many generous people have shared their knowledge with me throughout my career that it\u2019s hard to list them all.\u00a0 Most notably my friend Cookie, a rare breed in the car business that thought it was ok, no more than ok, to share his vast, been there done that, know where the bodies are buried knowledge with a woman of all people.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about the read the financial statement kind of knowledge I\u2019m talking about the watch out for this trick, keep an eye out for this on the bill of sale kind of knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0 It was invaluable but beyond that it was the same kind of knowledge my own father shared, the real life, you\u2019ll get kicked in the ass once in a while knowledge in a kicked up more educated went to college version.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the sixteen years I worked with him, he was my mentor, he was my friend and he became my confidant during a time when not much was going right.\u00a0 You can\u2019t help but know an awful lot about each other\u2019s families working together every single day.\u00a0 He knew my relationship with my father and I knew his relationship with his children especially his Muriel.\u00a0 So it was no surprise to me when my father died he could see the future.<\/p>\n

In the infinity of life that we all share, I have to believe that a promise kept is more important than many other things. \u00a0If something happens to me, he said\u2026you\u2019ve got Muriel.\u00a0 Of course I would, and so I do.\u00a0 Through the miracle of universal alignment she lives four doors away on our little Stowe Ln.\u00a0 It\u2019s been an easy friendship full of shared experiences and memories of both her father and mine.\u00a0 It\u2019s my hope that one day she will think of me as one of the generous people in her life and fulfill her promise of helping me grow old with a sippy cup of wine in my hand\u2026just sayin<\/p>\n

I had the honor of seeing her married this past weekend, of chauffeuring her in a shiny BMW the way her Father would have, of authenticating the day through photos that were beautiful but regrettably missing one of the most important people in her life. We didn\u2019t speak of it, we didn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

It was a joyous day none the less, had I had a daughter I would want her to be exactly like Muriel. Beautiful, real, take after her Father in that sarcastic listen closely so you don\u2019t miss anything kind of way.\u00a0 We will always share the Father\u2019s Daughter mentality, sentimentality although she will poo poo being capable of any such thing. What we know like we know is that they are exuberantly watching from somewhere and even if they\u2019re not they have shared so much that we will never run out of all that they have left behind for us.<\/p>\n

To that end the lesson for both of us from our Father\u2019s has been \u00a0to share what we know, not just our knowledge but our way of looking at things, our perspective if you will, our sense of humor, our sense of family and our friendship so that we too can leave behind bits of ourselves.<\/p>\n

\"prewed<\/a><\/p>\n

My dearest Muriel and Martina no amount of love and health and happiness can ever be enough for you.\u00a0 Know you\u2019re loved, share your lives fully and leave behind all that makes you what and who you are, as individuals and as a couple, so that many can benefit from your having met and married. \u00a0Like your wedding day I wish you just enough rain for luck I know like I know it will be a breathtaking life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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