Hearing country western songs, the other day, the songs’ lyrics got me appreciating little things about love and lost love, and a host of human emotions… about desires and wishes and disappointments, and happiness, dismay, sadness, and such, and that got me also wondering about big, powerful folks, and the big things they’re all caught up in… big things that can impact so much, potentially, for so many of us.
That’s the thing when powerful people have so much power.
What they’re up to, what’s going on with them, can envelop us everyday folks. It can be overwhelming and maybe, sometimes, even suffocating.
Those big, powerful people… are they appreciating little things, the sound of wind softly rustling leaves, the sound of violins — they’re electric violins, these days, aren’t they, like electric guitars? — with their melodic, sometimes soft, sometimes soaring, sounds, raising goosebumps on one’s arms.
Those country songs and sounds sure do have their own kind of power, don’t they?
Those big, powerful people, wielding their kind of power… if we somehow, could see inside their souls… would we be wondering what little things they might be appreciating…
The sounds of wind and rustling leaves? The sounds of children’s laughter?
Emotions? Would they be someplace, in their souls? Hidden away?
Powerful people have to project power, so discovering little things, little soothing things, might be too challenging, indeed, to achieve.
With a rather key, significant question in mind, as peering inside souls is underway…
Would there be anything much, at all, even deep inside their souls, to find?
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.