Posts Tagged With: friends

Saturday, F is for friends…

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Everybody needs friends.
Some people don’t think they do but they are wrong.
Friends are a necessity of life. 

There are as many kinds of friends as there are people in the world.
Every friend has a place in life.
Some are family, some are like family, and some are closer than family, and some are just friends.
There are those you shop with and those you eat and talk with, some are party friends and some are work friends.
Some visit you at home and some never see the inside of your house.

There are friends that are in your life for a time and then they are gone. 
I think they are in your life for a purpose and when they have fulfilled their purpose they move on.

There are friends that you share everything with and those you share only some things.  
There are friends that laugh with you and those who cry with you.
If you have one or two that you can laugh and cry with be thankful for they are rare.

Some people have many friends and some have few.
I am a person with many people in my life; some are acquaintances and some are friends.
The friend people are important in my life…they add goodness to my life.

Then there are the friends that have a place deep in the heart.
They are the people who are with you through all the ups and downs.
They show up when you need them…sometimes before you know you need them.
They love you even when you are unlovable.
If you have one or two, or maybe three, of these special people in your whole lifetime
you are truly blessed.

Life is better when you have a friend walking beside you on the journey.

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Today, I think I am one of the blessed.

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Saturday, pillows were what I made…

I made pillows for Christmas gifts.

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I think they turned out great.

They were super easy to make.

Pillow form, napkins, yarn, yarn needle.

That’s all you need for materials.

Add time and a little patience.

They’re done and ready to give.

I think my friends liked them.

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Ps.  I have edited this post so many times I lost count.  All due to senior moments, I think.

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Saturday, walking is good for the heart…

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Sometimes it is all too much!

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You know all those pesky chores;

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all the stuff that is never-ending

 

and  the stress of the blog.images (17)

You just need to walk away.

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Be it a city sidewalk strollimages (13)

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By yourself without anyone else aroundimages (21)

images (11) with a close friend or two

maybe with your best friend ever.images (15)

You never know who you’ll meet,

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or someone with some wild news.images (14)

Maybe you’ll see not a soul.images (23)

Whatever may occur on your walk,

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you will feel so much betterhallelujah_cat

after you have taken your walk

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Saturday, with a little help…

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Friends help us find our way.

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Saturday, a secret among friends…

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A Black Cat Book Review

Kindred Spirits

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Sarah Strohmeyer

Beth, Carol, Mary Kay, and Lynne get together once a month at the meeting of The Ladies Society for the Conservation of Martinis.  They were the only members.  With martinis in hand they talked about work, husbands, kids, life in general.  They let out their anger and frustrations, tell of their hopes and dreams, cry a little, laugh a lot, and became best friends.

When Carol left her husband and moved away to pursue her career and Lynne waged a battle with cancer The Ladies Society became a thing of the past, just a memory.  Then Lynne lost her war with cancer.

She left a letter for the friends asking one last favor of them.  Lynne had a secret, one that surprises the three women.  Surprises, shocks, and saddens them.

With the letter to Beth, Carol, and Mary Kay were two other letters that Lynne asks her friends to deliver in person.  Thus begins their journey to find two women that Lynne kept hidden from everyone.

As they travel they resurrect The Ladies Society for the Conservation of  Martinis and begin to find parts of themselves they thought were lost forever.  On the journey they take together:

Carol finds her heart,
Beth finds her strength,
Mary Kay finds her dream.

And they all find that friendship with honesty and truth and love at it’s core remains steadfast and strong no matter what happens in life.

Honesty, truth, and love…and a well mixed Martini.

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Saturday, Minding Frankie…

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A Black Cat Book Review

Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy

The day Frankie is born her mother dies.  But Noel Lynch is there to take her home and try his best to do what has taken him totally by surprise and is completely unprepared for, be her father.

Noel and Frankie are not alone.  They have family and friends who care about them: 

  • Noel’s parents who are trying to get a statue of Saint Jarlath built.
  • Unlucky in love Lisa who comes to live with them.
  • Cousin Emily who has come to Ireland from America to find what she wants to do with her life.
  • Dr. Hat, a lonely bored old man.
  • Declan and Fiona and their baby boy who was born the same day and in the same hospital as Frankie.
  • Dying Muttie and his devoted wife, Lizzie.

Because of Frankie, these people, and their neighbors, band together to help Noel.  A man, who up until now has always lived with his parents, a loner, interested only in getting through the work day so he can go to the local pub and drink himself drunk.  A man who is now a father and surely needs all the help he can get.

The one person not helping is the social worker assigned to Frankie’s case, Moira Tierney.  To say Moira is an unhappy person is by far an understatement.  Because she is miserable, she sees little good in anyone and is intent on proving Noel unfit to raise his daughter.

Binchy writes wonderful stories about ordinary people doing what ordinary people do.  She writes honestly; life is not lived with all highs and lows, but somewhere in the middle, most of the time for most folks.

Told with humor and emotion Minding Frankie is a story of how one baby girl changes the lives of many.  It is a story extraordinary in its normalcy.

There is anger and sadness, hurt and healing, love lost and love found.  The highs and lows of life and what happens in between.

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Thursday, friendships old and new…

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I am really late getting this posted.  It is probably Friday for some of you and this is a Thursday post.  So no more blithering…

Today I met a wonderful woman  and reconnected with another.  Two special ladies.  What a blessing!

The friend I reconnected with is a quiet and gentle woman.  Very soft-spoken and with a calm demeanor.  The new, hope to be a friend, is outgoing and has such a zest for life she is just so…fun.

They are very different and very much the same.  Not sure that makes sense to everyone but some of you will know what I mean.  It has to do with sharing the same Love and Spirit.

Today, I am thankful for the blessing of friendships, old and new.

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