{"id":3149,"date":"2017-03-01T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:28:09","slug":"relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2017\/03\/01\/relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It happens to every writer\u2026a block, a blank page, not a damn thing to say.\u00a0 All the while feeling you have too much to say. Redefining your voice is inevitable at some point, no one stays the same so why should their voice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s March, a month that has always proven pivotal to me. Today on the 1st<\/sup> it\u2019s pouring out, with thunder and lightning, warmer temps and my garden is showing signs of life and reemergence.\u00a0 I was gifted a lovely bunch of tulip bulbs in a glass vase that is just now starting to bloom.\u00a0 It\u2019s residing on my mantle but destined for the back garden once those blooms have died back.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be able to enjoy them over and over in Springs to come.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I\u2019m just coming off the high of hosting the annual Car Hag\u2019s Brunch and feeling a bit\u2026something. Dated perhaps or less energized and I\u2019m wondering am I suffering a crisis of relevance?\u00a0 Relevance: a quality or state of being closely connected or appropriate. To leave an ordinary legacy must relevance be an overarching quality? \u00a0Or will just bits and starts be enough.<\/p>\n

<\/a>To watch these people\u00a0connect through their listening skills, the way they make space for each other, the camaraderie, the lack of competition, the advice, the lack of judgement, gives me pause that they will all be fine. They live in a male dominated industry, that I worry may never change, but these women are making their way from around my table to the head of the table in their daily interactions and I could just burst with the pride I feel for them. My only job on this day is to provide a safe and comfortable space where your shoulders drop from around your ears, the food is good and the wine is plenty.\u00a0 The rest is up to them.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I don\u2019t say much throughout the day, I enjoy watching them interact. I\u2019ve been called the mother ship and that bit of relevance delights me. As for true relevance, the bits and starts will have to do for now.\u00a0 The reassuring phone calls and dealer visits that have become a bit more scholastic than industry standard are more my forte.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be blessed to leave an entire program behind when I retire but there is nothing that says it will endure if someone\u2019s not fighting for it or if it becomes irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Going forward I\u2019m hoping we will be joined by even more Hags, only those that are customer facing or dealer facing, who can speak and, more importantly, listen from a base of true understanding of this crazy car business.\u00a0 My hope is to need a bigger table\u2026<\/p>\n

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<\/a>As for leaving an ordinary legacy, I\u2019m concentrating on the little things, the ordinary moments in time that I\u2019ve been capturing every day through my Instagram musings. People seem to respond so much more to those than anything lofty I\u2019ve tried to conjure up.\u00a0 Just the words \u201cconjure up\u201d seem inauthentic and contrived for purposes other than my real story.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s back to living my life the way I want my story told and documenting that story through thoughtful words and images. \u00a0And even more relevant, sharing other\u2019s stories and heritage morsels and life with an old dog. \u00a0\u201cLike\u201d or don\u2019t \u201clike\u201d follow or don\u2019t follow but know that if you wind up here it will be real, the tiniest bit relevant and perhaps something you can use yourself. Crisis averted\u2026<\/p>\n

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