It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small, small world.

Do you remember that song from Disney, the one about peace? I first heard it at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair when I was a young girl. You can click here to learn more about the history of the song and the Disney ride.

Today Rog and I lunched with LB to catch up a bit on our respective lives. We first met when a mutual colleague invited LB to our weekly Tuesday morning conversation group Rog and I used to host at our business Conversation Point: Another School of Thought. We also worked closely with LB when he held workshops at our venue. It’s always fun getting together with LB, getting to know him more and growing closer.

Tonight I met JW for tea to find out more about some interesting volunteer work she is passionately involved in with youth at risk. Rog and I first met her and her fiancé, ZW – now husband – when they came to us for a wedding coaching session. When Rog and I were ordained as non-denominational ministers, JW & ZW jumped at asking us to marry them. We did (couple-to-couple) and since then have kept in touch and shared some wonderful, warm times, getting to know one another along the way and feeling more and more connected, like family. We helped them and they were a wonderful blessing to us – and continue to be.

This evening I learned that JW knows LB! That’s a thrill for me. They live on opposite parts of the valley, work in different fields, come from different cultural backgrounds, etc. However, they are both active in Landmark, and because they are in community there, they are in community with us. “Six degrees of separation” come to mind.

We are all so closely connected to one another in this seemingly vast world and oftimes don’t know it – until further conversation and exploration reveals it is so. Yet, Spirit is always there. It is indeed a small world.

It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears,
It’s a world of hopes and a world of fears;
There’s so much that we share,
That it’s time we’re aware
It’s a small world after all.
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small, small world.
There is just one moon, and one golden sun,
And a smile means friendship to ev’ryone;
Though the mountains divide,
And the oceans are wide,
It’s a small world after all.

Click to hear the song – enjoy strolling down memory lane!