Remembering Friends For Their Magic

How lovely it was to hear from my high school girlfriend who was one of my besties in our early years of high school in the wild and fabulous 70s. 

We were love-struck with two seniors who were beautiful in every way.  These guys were each our Adonis. We were also living our version of Romeo and Juliet with strict parents who wouldn’t let us date these dangerous beings.  One of us got moved cross-country. One of us was put on permanent hiatus from dating.  Over the years we’d kept in touch, sometimes more often than other times years would pass. But we’d always able to pick up where we left off as if no time has passed.  She and I both remarried. We both raised blended families. We both adore our husbands and are blessed in every way.  And we both just realized how much magic we share in finding extraordinary moments every day in life’s simpler times.   

We touched base over the holidays and I shared that the book was just launching and I’d make sure she got her copy.  Treasured friends are precious and I wanted her to have a copy.   I was humbled by her kind words and struck by her sentiment that home is where the heart is and that we are so much alike without even remembering that really.   We both love reading. We both love our homes. We both love creative pursuits. We both love the quiet and we are fine being in our own company. We both loved the poem Don’t Quit which I reference in the book.

For her and for me solitude is our bliss and our home is our haven when we come in from the lovely cacophonous world of clients, colleagues, friends, and the litany of tech and media that can be noise noise noise.  We remarked to each other just today how we are so much alike without even really realizing it.  I wish I had a picture of her when we were young.  In fact, I must go home and see if I can find one.  Meanwhile, there is bliss in excavating memories, old friendships, and remembering them for their magic.  Find an old friend and say hello. Find a best friend and recall what you had in common. That magic is probably very alive and well.