“…I've got a song, I ain't got no melody
I' ma gonna sing it to my friends
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky …”~ Billy Preston
I visited s Soroptimist meeting tonight. A friend had invited me a couple of months ago, but this was the first night the scheduling ‘fit.’
When I was invited they didn’t know I’d received financial assistance from another chapter over 30 years ago that helped me pay for college textbooks. What I didn’t know ahead of time was tonight they were announcing this year’s local recipient of the same assistance. They also discovered that another applicant for the reward had a letter of recommendation from a local professor who’d also been helped by the organization.
I’m amazed where we find those circles. The middle school teachers ‘wished’ for calculators and two donors stepped forward. Those calculators will not only help the 50+ students that use them this semester, that will ripple out as those students grow up and are active in our community. Someone helped them, gave them the right tools and they in turn, will have math skills and life skills to help someone else!
The circles get bigger, more entwined. I’m not an engineer, but I see strength in how those circles continue to reach out and support other women in our community. And that DOES fill my heart with a song that has no melody. That’s why I sung it for you, my friends!
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