Friendship

The past two weeks, I've been blessed to be able to spend time with a few of my sweet friends. As Sarah left today, she left a card for me that really expresses why the quality of these friendships are so special to me.  Thankfully, I'm very blessed to have also several more friends than just those pictured above to whom the following applies.

the ebb and flow of friendship

there are times
in our lives
when we are so busy
we don't have a chance
to connect,
but there's a rhythm
to our friendship
that's as deep
and as sure
as the sea.


A rhythm
of listening
and sharing,
of knowing
and belonging,
of reaching out,
and reconnecting.


I love being able to pick up
right where we left off.
I love the natural rhythm
of our friendship.

Such sweet friends. So nice to just be able to pick up where we left off - no matter the length of time.  Love you girls....you all know who you are.

Another quote

My good friend Kelly puts quotes at the end of her email and frequently changes them....this is what she has today.....

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Another quote

A friend has this quote at the end of his email.....today I saw it in large type and highlighted and it just really spoke to me.

"Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind... and those that mind... don't matter." - Dr. Seuss

I'm still wondering about the first part of that quote...."be who you are." I'm still wondering who I am. I look in the mirror and I'm not sure that I recognize the girl that is looking back. And I don't really know how to find her....how to figure out who I am now.

I generally don't have a problem with the next part...."say what you feel." Depends on who I am with, but I am quite often able to say what I am thinking, regardless of if it is necessarily the most politically correct thing to say. Of course, I don't know that it is a good thing or not! But the more that I say what I think (or feel) around people that really do matter, the more I realize that they are on my side no matter what. And that really does feel good.

Quotes

two quotes I recently rediscovered....posting them here for posterity:

Insist upon yourself. Be original. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (American lecturer, poet and essayist, 1803-1882)

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. ~Jules Renard (French writer, 1804-1910)