The things that really matter

"It is difficult to know what counts in the world. Most of us count credits, honor, dollars. But at the bulging center of mid-life, I am beginning to see that the things that really matter take place not in the boardrooms, but in the kitchens of the world."
Gary Allen Sledge
Writer
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I received this quote as an "Insight for the Day" and it resonated in me. I focus so hard on those things that externally make me 'successful" when true success is found in the deeper things of life, relationships and family.

Speaking of the kitchen--I bought fresh hot Italian sausage for making homemade spaghetti sauce, something that is in my history--the idea of homemade spaghetti sauce with meatballs or sausage brings back such memories--I hadn't thought about it in a long time since I now don't eat pasta often (or Italian food in general)because I am gluten intolerant. Yesterday, unwrapping that waxed brown paper, it just took to back to being a child with my Mom at "Charlie I's" market--back in the day before 7-11 or Circle K, we had those family grocery stores where they ground meat right in front of you and the owner would cut all his own meats--sausage was often made right there---It amazes me how just brown paper surrounding a pound of sausage from the Safeway meat counter brought back that memory--so different then buying it all wrapped in clear plastic and ready to go----

yes, the things that begin in kitchens are those that last--I have no true emotional recall of things that happened or what my parents and grandparents did in terms of monetary issues--it is those things of the heart that truly last long past the grave.