Visited yesterday, Mother’s Day.  It was lovely, and it was lonely.  Change one letter and it means something quite different.  However, it also is kinda cool that lovely and lonely can be experienced at the same time. I like stuff like that.  🙂

How did the sister bench come to be?  Honestly, I sent out this dream to the universe, and it took about 4 years to get my answer back.

My dear sister passed away in 2015, and I really wanted a bench to be placed somewhere in her honor.  I was unable to accomplish it in our hometown in Maine, and never could figure out why.   You would think at my age I would recognize a “meant to be” as it was happening, but no, I lamented on that failure for over a year…………

While the universe sure did take it’s time, when the time was right, deliver it did in the most spectacular way…….

Okay, rewind. 🙂

There is a lovely park nearby, with sweet trails, fine old trees and a sense of peace that I cannot describe.  It just has to be experienced.  This is where I drum with friends, and where I drum alone as well. Land of Legend Drumming came to fruition at this park, and that endeavor has become so much more than I could have imagined.  Serendipity is at work in a big way there. My partner in the Land of Legend effort is part of this parks staff, and when I shared with her my dream of a bench, she said she already had a place in the woods along the wildflower trail that she wished had a bench.  When she showed it to me, it was instant!  I knew this was the place for the Sister Bench.  A few short months later, boom, there it is.

In a previous blog post I talked about the song, “Good Where We’ve Been, Good Where We’re Going”……….a sweet theme that emerged in our drumming group complete with some beautiful singing. The inscription on my Sister Bench is the title of that song, and a tribute to my wonderful sister.  She had a very hard life, but all of the pain and sorrow she experienced did not steal her spirit.  In her last days here on earth, she reminisced about all the happy times, and was overjoyed that a beautiful baby girl had just been born into our family.

The bench is truly dedicated to all sisters everywhere.  I look forward to many bench sits and bench chats throughout the rest of my life, and the wonderful thing is, it will live on after me.  Sweet!

Can you picture yourself sitting here?