All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need*

They came with no particular sense of time, or rhyme, or reason. They just came like a gentle breeze. Sometimes… once or twice a week. Sometimes… none at all for a week or more. Never took the time to think that much about them… just read ‘em, smiled inside, and moved them to a folder marked "RUGMAN." Once the gentle breeze arrived with the heading "Say, hey Badco," another time "Billy Boy," while some came with no heading at all… just an attachment like the one enclosed below that arrived on the morning of June 29, 2004.

The Bee Attitudes

Bee busy
Doing what you love to do.

Bee true
To the dreams God's given you.

Bee sure
To taste the sweetness of each day

Bee silly
Giggle lots...take off and play.

Bee Bold
Enough to trust your wings and fly.

Bee-lieve
The power of prayer will get you by.

Bee Happy
Keep your outlook bright and sunny.

Bee Yourself...Bee-cause
You really are a honey!

Ed Sarkisian always sent those gentle breezes under the name ‘RUGMAN,' which I heard was a reference to the famous ‘rug makers’ that inhabited the homeland of his ancestors. Don’t know if that’s true or not… never thought to ask him.