Helpful people

Feng shui speaks of a Helpful People area of houses. Well, I must have that down pat, for all my life, I have been surrounded with helpful people.

Lauren had to work Monday when I was taking the train back from Chicago to Fairfield. She suggested I take a cab to Union Station from her apartment, and she would take her lunch hour to meet me there. She told me to just wait outside, and she would find me.

On the drive over to Union Station, the cab driver was talking to his brother in Jordan in Arabic on the phone. You could tell two brothers who loved each other were talking. Anyway, the cab driver left me off in front of the Union Station where a bank was. I was just kind of standing there, wondering if this would be a place where Lauren would think to look for me.

A man rushed up to me so fast that I wondered if he were selling something. But, he wasn't. He wanted to help me. He said: "Are you looking for the train?" And he started to point to an entrance by the bank. I said I was waiting for my daughter to find me outside the station. Then he pointed to where he thought would be a good place to wait, and then he went back to where he had been standing. This is what I mean by a helpful person.

I walked over to the main entrance on Canal Street where he had pointed, and Lauren found me there soon.

There are many helpful people in my life, and it has always been like that.

I must say that one of the most consistently kind and thoughtful helpful people I know is Lauren herself!