What a beautiful gift to wake up to this morning! We DO know an awful lot about each other, don't we!!! And yet I feel perfectly safe with your holding so many of my thoughts and knowing so much of my life. I know men think women make friends quickly and easily and tell their deepest secrets without hesitation, but this isn't true. As I get older, I find real friendship much more difficult to develop. Oh, there are plenty of acquaintances-- People with whom you run the school carnival, sit on the bleaches at little league games, eat hamburgers at the annual neighborhood barbeque..but the ones you trust with your soul are not many. I wonder if, had we been physical neighbors, we would have recognized our "spiritual kinship" or would it have been smothered by layers of social silliness. Would we have gotten sidetracked by, "That nasty Westbrook boy pulled Briana's ponytail!" and "THose Bartley's are so thoughtless. Listen to that loud music!" Maybe--or maybe late one night we would have run into each other alone in the backyard, each holding her wineglass and gazing at the stars, and recognized ourselves in each other.
The very nicest thing that happened to me yesterday was receiving your e-mail saying you were there if I needed you through the Strike watch. Not ONE of my other friends called! The boys and I turned on CNN to watch the countdown-Dan of course was at work--he came home about 2 and went back at 6. It was all very dramatic but I wonder if people realized that there were 80000 of us who would lose their paychecks at that moment if the president hadn;t stepped in. Anyway, it was an extremely discerning gesture on your part and I was very touched. You and Freddy have listened to my moans all week with great patience and I am grateful!!
So Sis, thanks for your friendship-may it endure and continue to thrive here in cyberspace until we meet for real..
love,
penni |
