At a funeral yesterday, the wife of the deceased paid loving and eloquent tribute to her departed husband. She said, "Kurt taught me that so much of life is decided by what we permit ourselves to see." What a gem. What a simple and beautiful truth. Jeannie could have simply pointed out that life depends on our perspective but that would have led us to believe that vision depends more on the eye or the stance than the mind and the choice. When Kurt's son spoke yesterday, he recalled the painful moment in his early adulthood in which he told his parents that he was gay. He expected his father to shut down or to well up with anger but instead, after some silence, his dad said, "Well, I don't know much about that... so I suppose it's something I'll have to learn." Truly, life, happiness and love depend on what we permit ourselves to see.
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