I hope if you are reading this you know that you have a friend in me. Everyone needs a friend, right, and if you are reading this I count you as one of my friends. My circle is wide and I am always happy to encircle a new friend so come on in.
I may be feeling a bit nostalgic today about friendships and those that have crossed my life over the years. I have been blessed with some pretty fabulous friends along the way in my life and I was reminded just last week of a friendship that was a special one when Debbie from Dothan, Alabama texted me out of the blue to tell me she was thinking of me fondly and of our time together. If you were following me years ago when Dothan visits were a part of our life, Debbie was the one who introduced me to the infamous Dancin’ Dave. I wrote about him plenty but the first post is here if you want to pop over and then pop back.
Anyway, it reminded me of how many friends I have made over the years and how they stick with you regardless of the passage of time. But it takes two to make a friendship work and sometimes that does not always happen. I am sad that I am no longer. in contact with my college roommate and am going to try to reconnect one more time before the end of the year.
Moving around a bit has afforded me the opportunity to make friends in a lot of places and what a privilege that is. Friends from childhood (Beth), really good friends from high school and college (Becky, Judy, Steph), friends from Navy days (Virginia, Mary Ellen) and then friends from every place we lived in our married life ( Denise, Sally, Sue, Ann,Jeni, Sara, Donna, Katy,Beth, Elaine, Jane to name a very few) fill up my friends list. There probably has always been one best friend every place I have lived through the years. I think my nostalgia has also been stirred up because my true best friend, Ann, is coming for a little visit. Ann and I met wayyyy back in 1998 or 1999 at church and have been fast friends through thick and thin. We sometimes get up to some shenanigans but she gets me like no one else does so how wonderful is that?
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I couldn’t write a post without highlighting my “imaginary” friends as Chris calls them. Many of them I have never met in person but a lot of my blogger friends became actual friends that I have met IRL which is wonderful. These women, for the most part, make up part of my quilt of friendship and I would count them as “real” friends (Audrey, Diana, Darlene, Dawn, Jean, Shirley to name a few). My North Iowa Blogger friends will always have a very special place in my friendship circle. One of my favorite pictures is this one that we took at a blogger event at Applebee’s.
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Sometimes my circle of friends come together as it did a few years ago in Brevard when Ann came to visit and we had lunch with my (BBFF) Brevard Best Friend Forever Beth.
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So here’s to friendship. To all who went unnamed in this post (there are MANY) and to those that are yet to cross my path. I love you all. Thanks for being the friend that I needed right when I needed you.
Today while you think about all the friends. in your life, take a listen to some songs about friendship by checking out this list.
