PENNIES FROM HEAVEN ... POST #5

Sometimes ... such little things come into our lives, almost going unnoticed. Glimmers along the path. They hold such meaning ... value ... little miracles and we almost pass them by on a daily basis, never stooping down to pick them up.

Pennies from Heaven. 

Three days ago Michelle, Frank's ex wife posted this video for their kids, Nate, Maggie and John on Facebook. A recital of the Lewis Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky."I almost missed it.  It took me back to the first time I had heard Frank doing that piece when he was 13. A performance on a picnic bench at Azalea Youth Center. 

Frank wrote in the description:

100 years ago a friend and mentor wrapped me up in aluminum foil and let me do this for a talent show. He recently asked for me to reprise this performance. For you, John Morgan! Sorry no milk jug!

Over the years ... and our time together, with little urging, I would craft a helm from aluminum foil and a gallon milk jug and bedecked with the finery of a sword and reused cape, he would give his all. Every time.

Today was ... is ... his Birthday. Frank passed last Fall and his loss has left a gaping hole in the lives he touched He was a big man filled with talent, with and a flair for the theater. But most of all he was a man of love whose friends and family were interchangeable. To me he was friend, brother, student, teacher ... but best of all ...

co-conspirator. 

If there is WIFI in Heaven ... and you are raeding this post Frank ... Happy Birthday.

I look at the penny in my hand. It is not perfect. It is rushed slightly ... there's background noise. It's a bent penny ... but it's still from Heaven. Frank's words touch me and I feel loved. I clutch the penny tight in my hand. Saving this vast treasure that is just enough to buy one more dream between friends.