Well, of course we all know fun comes first.  Hey, the speech happened and pretty much according to plan.  Not that it was highly planned.  Anyway, it all went well and it was well received by the audience.  It is too bad but I don’t think that it was recorded.  But I was asked to repeat it on May 21 at the Burton Community Church so we have another chance.

One thing that I noticed with this event was that I had fun doing it.  I have accumulated enough confidence and brashness to pull this stuff off without a lot of stress.  Times past I would forget to have fun and just sort of be happy when things were over and buttoned up safely.  But now it’s safety third, right?

Would like to thank a few people that I had contacted for ideas earlier on in this project: Reverand Bonnie from Arizona,  Kathy and Carolyn from Iowa, Cris from Argentina, Padre Tomas from California and Steve, Catherine and Commando Bill from Vashon.  Oh, and there is Pope Francis of course with his timely TED talk.  I was trying to show unity by gathering ideas from as far out as I could reach.  Thanks amigos.

Better thank the audience too.  Thank you all you folks for coming out to the event.  Too bad that it is such a slight percentage of the Island population.  Maybe with more exciting speakers like Felipe we can change that!

So maybe I will put in the posts over the next few days some of what people wrote to me as ideas and what I did with them.  So below is a paragraph that I gathered from Papa Francisco and I started with it and I finished with it in the speech.

“Quite a few years of my life have strengthened my conviction that each and everyone’s existence is deeply tied to that of others.  Life is not time merely passing by, life is about interactions.”  Pope Francis 2017.

OK, off I go to make stuff happen.  Friday is the time when you have to work extra hard to make up for all the times you slacked earlier in the week.  Love you, Felipe.