Today I see clearly what a wonderful and incredibly beautiful life I have been given; so many experiences with so many people of such diverse goodness. In gratitude for all lives who have touched mine, I want to share with you glimpses of them and their goodness, magic and miracles. I hope the songs, poems and my life's journey, which I felt divinely led to capture, contains for you the reader the beautiful nature and goodness I have experienced. It is my hope that some of these writings, as I traveled through loves and losses and love again, may bring comfort or new and different insights to those who read them. My prayer today is that God helps me in my autumn years to paint their portraits, write their songs and do justice to the gift of their lives touching and enriching mine.