A little glimpse shows who Grandpa really is!

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Just a glimpse of something special and rather wonderful in a person who you normally see as just ordinary and maybe even a bit tiresome convinces you that whatever it is that they do is making that extraordinary thing about them real.  So, to the story, he, my husband and life partner hasn't been well and what goes with that is tetchy and irritable and what goes with that is that I get high-minded and critical and the mixture of tetchy and critical can of course lead to increased tetchy and increased criticism.  However wretched the night or miserable either of us are, we seldom miss meditation, out we go to the meditation hut, he reads something and we meditate before anything else.  Then it's hens and dogs and porridge making and into the day with whatever it brings.  And the daily round is the daily round and we play our characters in them but both of us are a bit tired and so there is an edge to the day which can disturb the underlying harmony.  But But But….He had to give a talk a short while ago, and this was just after coming out of hospital and we had wondered if he would or if he could but he had said he would and so he did.  When he spoke, the real person who lives inside him who doesn't have to be annoyed with traffic or family events or tiresome wives, appeared and it was a magnificent realisation that meditation has developed this inner man who is so pure and clear that I fell in love with him all over again.
Of course, on the way home, the traffic and the weather and the usual irritations were there but I had seen the light!!! I knew who was really sitting next to me.