Categories: awareness, love, quality

Recently I was reminded of the question, “If you could ask anyone living or dead any question, who and what would you ask?” I pondered this delicious question for several moments. What made an impression on me was who I wanted to ask. I didn’t really have any questions.

So I got to thinking about the people on my list. And the bottom line was that I simply wanted to be in the same room with these people. It wasn’t that these people said or did anything specific, it wasn’t their talent or their brilliance. It was something more. It was their energy, their essense, their beingness that really moved me. I created a new question, “Who do you want to sit in a room with?”

I started thinking about that energy. What is it? What color? What shape? What feeling? And lo and behold they each had similar qualities. And when I stopped to consider that even more, each quality was a quality that I want to possess. So here’s those qualities:

1. Humility
2. Determination
3. Compassion
4. Speak their full voice
5. Value peace

My list of people?

1. Tina Turner
2. Michael J. Fox
3. My Grandma Willard
4. Jim Carrey
5. Alan Alda

I may not be able to choose those folks as my company. But I do get to chose those qualities or values as my company. I get to choose to live by those values. I can embody the very qualities of the people that I’d like to just be in the room with. And, for those of you who are willing to go to this level with me - I get to experience the oneness of the universe that makes me of the same energy, essense, and ooze of those people.

Homework:

Consider who you’d like to just be near. Who makes your skin tingle in a desireable way? Who inspires you - makes you take a breath. Who calms your mind just thinking about them?

Now, write down all the qualities those people have.

Chose a way just to honor one or more of those people. I chose to share a Tab (you know, the 70’s diet drink) with my coworker Maria, to honor my grandmother. Maria also happens to wear Tabu - the same my grandma used to wear. I told her about my grandma’s doodles. And in what seems to be a simple interchange I honor my grandma, her compassion, her humility, her voice, her determination.

How will you honor the people that you’d just like to share some space with?

Truly Yours,

Joseph Lyons

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