There is no perfect human being. We all succumb to time. Even if time is an illusion, that illusion is our lives.
And as Stuart Smalley liked to say (boy I hope he is the next Senator from Minnesota!), "That's Okay!"
Words are spoken, but of course, it's not what is said that is important, it is the known, unspoken words that secretly resonate like a note plucked on a mystery string.
We all exchanged smiles and hugs. And then I verbalized it, even if it sounded kind of trite or sappy, especially knowing all the pain and suffering that makes up so much of existence, but you know, I felt it zing through my being like an arrow of truth:
"Life, it is a beautiful thing."
