“We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.”K.A. Laity
I’m a guitar player: acoustics, mostly, and they’re temperamental here in the Las Vegas heat. I take them to a luthier regularly: he’s a real craftsman and very much in demand. Whenever I drop off one of my instruments he has a shop full of many others, in all stages of maintenance and repair, yet he’s always happy to receive another and does so with a genuine interest and smile. I never ask how long it will be and he always completes the work in less time than I expect: it’s a fairly straightforward transaction that leaves me feeling satisfied and appreciated. I compare this to similar kinds of things we all do, like taking a car in for service or having a prescription renewed – those routine needs never seem to come with a smile anymore. And whenever I get the guitar back home and open the case, I always find a hand-written card from him thanking me for allowing him to be of service. It’s a tiny thing, but in today’s world that’s an extraordinary example of how things should be. Life is short – do something great today.
K. A. Laity is an award-winning author, scholar & critic
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