This summer, when life was rough at my house, I treated my mother to something she had always wanted to see, the Bob Hope exhibit in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Things were as usual, tight at my folks house, things were not the greatest and I was able to bring tears of joy to her face by helping her see and read about a man that she listened to and enjoyed from a very young age.
There are two things in life I always want to do: be a man of my word, and bring happiness to others.
Its always great to feel the happiness you can bring to someone else, when they have experienced so much pain. Seeing those tears of joy were enough to make this random trip worth it. Which is why the decisions I had to make after that, just that much worse...well that is something for another time, another place.
