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People show up.

It matters.

To many, showing up is essential to roots and relationships.

Children's dignity is enhanced when parents show up at shows, for contests, debates, report cards, and more, for example.

Like presence, showing up is key to so much more.

People heal up when one shows up with prayer for the hospitalized or home-bound, or incarcerated parishioners.

Studies show that relationships and roots are vital for one's wellness, and, quality of life.

Esteem and worth builds when others show up, show concern for one undergoing surgery, express feelings for something nice done, or, when one is remembered.

Life is like that.

I know that mentors of mine showed up often when I needed them most.

The late Eleanor Josaitis and Father William Cunnigham, among so many more, were like that.

They showed up.

Phil Marcus Esser, a folksinger in Nevada, remembers Josaitis and Cunnigham just showing up at his shows.

I remember dad and mom always having my Uncle Wally show up to walk us to school when my parents had to work to get the seven of us through private school.

When the Good Humor truck's bells rang out on our Arcola Street block on Detroit's east side, for ice cream sales, that showing up was certainly important.

A lick of strawberry shotcake on a stick engendered joy in most of us youngsters.

Showing up for team sports, cardgames with friends, and church each Sunday, for sure, is a routine I appreciate to this day. Routines and regular cycles are fruitful. They maintain health and wellness.

The consolations and desolations, joys and sorrows of life, and the roller-coaster-like ride of this spiritual life of good and bad times, brings beams of radiance within one despite life's trying times.

After all, no one can steal one's joy.

Showing up.

One's joy shows up with the rest of life's good times when others show up.

Like is like that.

We all know that at one time or another, thanks be to God.



There's something about showing up.