Today’s guest-blogger is Angels on Earth editorial assistant Kelly P. Gallagher.
“It’s a small world,” my mom always used to tell me when I was a little girl. She wanted me to believe that everyone is connected, even if it isn’t obvious. I shrugged off her saying as cliché. The world seemed gigantic to me.
Recently, I photographed myself holding a copy of Angels on Earth and posted the image to Facebook. I wanted my friends and family to know how much I enjoy bringing true angel stories to our readers. My college friend Lindsay, who works at a health office in Metairie, Louisiana, left a comment that really stood out. She wrote:
“Wait … that’s the magazine you work for? Those appear in the waiting room of our office all the time! Our patients are always carrying them, trading them and leaving them for one another.”
My grin stretched from ear to ear. Lindsay and I haven’t seen each other for about seven years. After college graduation, she moved to the Big Easy, and I started a life in the Big Apple.
Although we’d chosen different towns and different paths, our lives had reconnected. The very same stories and pictures of angels that I work with in New York are the ones Lindsay sees at her work, more than 1,300 miles away! And that’s not all—our editor-in-chief, Colleen Hughes, is a native of Metairie, so Lindsay’s patients have a personal connection to the magazine!
I guess my mom was right. It is a small world.
