If you read this blog with any frequency, you'll notice that I'm much more interested in noticing and appreciating my many blessings than dwelling on what could be going better for me. The fact is that all of us have countless reasons to be grateful, and nobody has a monopoly on life challenges. Billionares get cancer and people with meager financial resources feel wealthy if they are surrounded by love.
Recently two gentlemen I met through a couple of my passions - my work and music - were quite generous with their help in giving this blog a much bigger audience (and may in fact be the reason you're reading this blog right now).
Mark Aiton owns a company in NorCal that orchestrates athletic events, called On Your Mark Events. We met when we were both briefly involved in a non-profit organization that never quite got off the ground. But we hit it off and stayed in touch. Because of the huge popularity of his events, his website gets the kind of traffic I only dream about. When I asked him to check out the blog, he promptly linked it to his website: http://www.onyourmarkevents.com/
Marc Abramowitz is a software engineer for Yahoo and a very talented singer and guitarist who replaced me in a band I was in several years ago. The night I met him I watched him perform with my old band (who were like my brothers) and I was seriously impressed and truly glad for all of them. We've played a couple of acoustic gigs together and we're connected through a couple of other musicians as well. Great guy. I got to see him Saturday night and he mentioned that his blog was also pretty heavily trafficed as well, but only in the context of giving me very helpful suggestions to raise my traffic level. A couple of days later, he linked my blog to his website: http://marc-abramowitz.com/
The more I notice how fortunate I am, the more these little blessings seem to materialize in my life.
Funny thing about that, huh?
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