The Gold of Her Laughter

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.” 
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

   If we are lucky, there are persons we meet in our life who are extraordinary. These people remind us that our world is full of beauty. If that person is a woman, she may fill your life with "the gold of her laughter".  She may make your heart beat "wild with the breeze of her sighs."
 
   Our lives are complicated and far from simple.  Still, when there are cracks in our life, beauty can be found, music can be made, brokeness can be made whole again, and these cracks can be filled with the gold of friendship and laughter.