Friendship – Page 2 – by heart and hand

November 30, 2013January 28, 2019

Dividing the playground

Been thinking on the term “best friend”.
Why do we accept this idea…
Why do we feel the need to grade each other…
Who introduced the notion…
Why do we give it validity…
Who says there is only one that should be the closEST.
Where does it begin… childhood yes I know really… but where does it end…
Does it ever?

Grown women still dividing the playground.
What’s wrong with just being friends?

Good friends, great friends, friends who love, friends who have more and some who have less time to grow together – but friends.

Why isn’t that beautiful word enough on its own?

November 6, 2013January 29, 2019

She sashayed down the aisle

I first saw her 25 years ago when she sashayed down the aisle of the airplane in a white (and what I learned later was her favourite, Maggie Shepherd) dress. (Yes I really used the word ‘sashayed’). We chatted at the layover and then again in the lobby of the hotel where we were all staying. Several years my senior, belief systems poles apart, different lifestyles and backgrounds but somehow an instant connection.

November 5, 2013January 29, 2019

Evening friends

Over the years I have mostly dreaded going along to work functions. First as a shy young wife, then as the much younger wife of a new director and then as the wife not of the same ethnicity as the rest of the wives being the only one who didn’t get her shoes and jewellery made at the same places. Haven’t had many work do’s of late… tho this group has been the easiest I’ve ever spent time with…

September 27, 2013January 31, 2019

She held my face in her hands

My Nanna was pretty unique.

She’s been gone a good long while but I had cause to think of her today.

I went to help a friend with something this morning. It took a bit of time but the thing itself wasn’t a big deal to me because it was dealing with stuff I understood. For her though, she’d got into a muddle and a slump and couldn’t see her way through.
I felt like that recently when future SIL rescued me from a techno problem which had me ready to scream, but which was second nature to him. 🙂

September 12, 2013January 30, 2019

Portable church

Shopping at our nearest shopping centre today (Midland Gate) when I ran into someone I have immense respect for. We didn’t sing and we didn’t pray, but we did have Church right there as we talked. It’s nearly 6 years since I stood in the almost exact same place having church with one friend, and then another, and another – like a group skydive – each grabbing hold of the other as they floated by ‘by chance’.

August 8, 2013January 30, 2019

Reminiscing

Had a very smiley morning with my folks today. Have been taking Mum shopping often on a Thursday morning and today Dad came along too. Mainly for the fun of taking Miss 5 into school – though I cleverly forgot it was photo day and the usual half hour wouldn’t happen. Nevertheless content, we pottered off to Midland Gate and while Dad took a seat, Mum and I went off to hunt down the things she wanted.