We knew we are what we are, but also knew, we can be more.

There we were, two middle-aged, white males talking about things which really mattered to us, were outside our ken and experience, but which we were trying to fathom.

We can open our minds to know and understand and see more, open our hearts to the worlds of others and what they love, and open our wills to live what emerges from these transforming experiences.

Out of this journey towards more, towards the other, comes gratitude, and gratitude is connected with grace and gracefulness.

Then, the more we become a person of grace, the more we can create things of hope and beauty and goodness.

In his delightful Graceful, Seth Godin sees the person who makes themselves indispensable – the linchpin – in this way (I have simply replaced the word linchpin with grace):

‘Grace resists the pressure to conform and
comply.  Instead she works without a map,
solve interesting problems.leads, connects
and creates an impact.  Grace is the one we
can build a project around, the one we will
miss if she leaves.’

Whoever we are, we can be this person too.

(Written and cartoon drawn on the East Coast Line.)