This may sound like an odd title for a blog, but bear with me a moment while I explain.  Since the launch party two weeks ago, I have had numerous phone calls and emails from friends who are helping me spread the word about Party with Heart and our mission to put some heart back into gift giving. Certainly the fact that we are working to raise funds for non-profit organizations could be a motivating factor.  Anyway, I just had to take a moment to praise these friends of mine  and dedicate to them an excerpt from one of my favorite essays.  It’s called the Mountain Disappears by Leonard Bernstein (1950).   It is one of my all time favorites.  I keep it hanging in my office.  The beginning goes like this:

” I believe in people, I feel, love, need, and respect people above all else, including the arts, natural scenery, organized piety, or nationalistic superstructures.  One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the whole mountain disappear for me.”

Until I write again, be well, be happy and take a moment to appreciate the fine people in your life. 

Beth