Delays

The Tuesday back to work after a long Labor Day weekend brings a certain charge of excitement in the air of the new season ahead. Long Island beaches can be at their loveliest in September but people are back in town, kids are off to school, plans are being made, and the many, many events that swirl around in a city like New York are buzzing, hatching and happening.

In September, it's very easy to bounce from activity to activity to activity and in all the busyness, forget to whisper a quiet Thank You.

At work today I was keeping an eye out for 4:30 pm EST to roll around as I was hoping to quickly tune in to another type of event happening, many miles away, before bouncing back to what I was working on. charity: water - an organization that began four years ago when the founder first gave up his birthday for contributions for a well in a far off land - was celebrating its birthday in a village called Moale in the Central African Republic. There was a live well digging being promoted to supporters and across social media networks, where the people of Moale have been waiting for clean water for over 16 years.

Unfortunately the well digging didn't go as planned, and there was no happy celebration to witness for the people of Moale today.

Sometimes it can be very difficult to see the gifts in delays but personally this reminded me how fortunate we are to live in a place where we can just turn on a tap to drink clean water, whenever we want to.