Friday, September 18, 2009

Instructions for living a life:
















... " 4.

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.



~ from Mary Oliver's "Sometimes" - found in "Red Bird".


40+ years ago I lost touch with my Best Friend in the entire world. Both being military wives we'd made numerous moves across country - both of our fathers had passed away and our mothers each had new married names ... so conventional searching methods were fruitless. About a month ago I was thrilled to finally find my friend - and especially so to find that she was less than two hours away from where I live!

After several weeks of daily writing/chats we finally met again last weekend - and it was as if not a single day had passed between us. :-) We've written an article together about our experience and whether or not we have success in publication ... it was fun and rewarding to collaborate with my friend. Rest assured - we will NEVER lose touch again! :-)

5 comments:

  1. what a wonderful reunion! I'm full of happy emotion for you both! Who is whom? You look like sisters! Love, colorfulexpressions!

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  2. Thank you, Donna and Antoinette!

    The beautiful lady on the left is my friend - I'm the happy one on the right. :-)

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  3. This is wonderful news, Susan! and please greet your longlost friend for me, too. What a wonderful addition to both your lives to have made the connection again. Boud, Liz in rl.

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  4. Thank you, Liz. Though I've never met you F2F ... it's been what 6-7 years now that I've "known" you and treasured your strong presence and, yes ... considered you a rl friend.

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