Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Friendship
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Confetti is flying out of my calendar and littering my kitchen counter from all of the recent birthdays! Besides my mother-in-law's, last week my friend Gina partied her way into 50 (well, every day is a celebration with Gina, anyway. She IS a party!) Another friend, Scott, turned 54, and yet another, Larry, turns 60 this weekend. (I remember…
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For the past six years these friends from high school have hit the road on Harleys (well, one Yamaha), just getting away from their regular lives, reconnecting and strengthening their friendship. I think it's great that they care enough about each other to make time for their friendship like this. This year they planned…
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"Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are." - Robert Pinsky When Kendall's soccer game was canceled last Saturday morning, Tom and I grabbed that chance to take a walk through my old neighborhood where my parents still live. We headed for a path that meanders through the heart of Deepwater, a twenty-or-so-acre island of mowed…
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Well, it wasn't the ending we hoped for, but finishing up second in the State soccer tournament (for the third time) is pretty dang good. I like blue, but red is still one of my favorite colors. Saturday everything fell into place – the rainclouds that had delayed earlier games moved out of the way,…
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Chasing dreams, making them come true…Sacrificing your time, traveling to another country to make a real difference in someone's life…That's what two of my fellow 50-year-olds are doing right now. Me, on the other hand…well, I'm living vicariously through them thanks to Facebook and blog pictures and postings because I've spent way too many days…
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Wouldn't you know…I go months without having to go to the doctor, and just when a pandemic is sweeping the world and the news, I get a headache that won't go away and hurts enough for me to go sit in a waiting room full of sick people? Thank goodness no one was coughing. But…
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Back in 9th grade, before driver's licenses and promise rings, Larry and I went steady. He wrapped my house and wrote me notes, gave me a corsage and escorted me onto the football field at halftime as part of the Homecoming Court, sat in the backseat with me while his brother's friend shuttled us to…
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I spent most of Saturday thinking I had a good grip on the day…up early, coffee with the dogs, a good work-out, several episodes of Rick Steves trekking all over Europe -it's public television fundraising time- including the corner of Spain and Southern France that Kendall visited in person last month, even some writing…all before mid-afternoon.…
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…with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope. My friend Leslie decorated twenty or thirty bottles with this quote and tucked them into clear cellophane goody bags for my party on Saturday – along with lots of candy, colorful, sparkly confetti, and packs of Cosmos seeds. I thought the pack of seeds was especially…
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