Walk your path. Make that connection.

Jack has been photo bombed.

As this week begins, walk your path no matter the unknown ahead and have a conversation with someone you do not know. There may be a true connection.

I walked along Seattle's Madison Park Beach on April 26th, and there were only a handful of people along the beach. An 81 ½ year old man stopped me as I walked by. He made a quip about my Purdue jacket. So I sat down on the bench with him. His name is Jack, and he visits Fort Wayne, which is my hometown, once a year to this day and does work with Asher.

I met a young woman, who is passionate about life and her music. Her name is Minnie. She attended a year of school in Fort Wayne at Aboite Elementary. She even played me, “Somewhere over the Rainbow” on her ukulele. (I hope Minnie still has the touchstone I gave her because she rocks.")

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With the Fort Wayne connections I made on my walk, I felt like Dorothy during the scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where she clicked her heals together and said, “There’s no place like home.”

Walk your path. Make that connection.