Hearing my neighbor sing to herself. Couldn't make out the words until I realized she was singing in her Native Turkish. I love the diversity of where I live, and the time that I'm alive that I get to enjoy and experience so much.
Were it to all end tomorrow, I could look back and smile upon a good life well lived. And for that I am unfathomably grateful. To my parents for raising me, instilling strong values and a work ethic in me, for those I have loved and those I have lost and the pieces of you I carry with me, for the wonderful friends that have been my shoulder in the hard times and my drinking partner in the good, for colleagues and comrades that have shared this journey, to my family that has loved and supported me; both blood and adopted along the way, and to where my heart rests. May you ever bathe in the brilliance that you are.
I rest tonight with a smile and a full heart, and for that I thank you all.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Turkish folk song to learn. smile emoticon
~ Love, Gideon Hodge
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