Silver and Gold...

Tonight, I reconnected an old friendship that should never have gotten lost in hard feelings...I misinterpreted a comment during an emotional exchange, and that error caused me and my friend an inordinate amount of pain and too many months (years!) of silence between us.

Over the past couple of weeks, we've been emailing again, working towards a meeting that would, we both hoped, begin a healing that was long, long overdue. Dinner tonight was wine and Indian food, and catching-up conversation. And big hugs. Life is simply too short to allow such absences to occur.

I think she and I will be fine now. And for that I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. And casting grateful prayers skyward.

I came home to blog comments from two relatively new friends from the other side of the country, both talking about meeting up in August at Sock Summit so we can finally hug in reality, not just the virtual world that has nurtured the beginnings of our friendships. It brought me to tears, on the heels of the evening just closing...what a wealth of female friendship surrounds me!

But there's still one missing friend that is causing me much concern. A long-time "sister-from-another-mother" that for some reason has been silent for the past two months. If that friend is reading, if I've done something to hurt you, I'm sorry and hope we can talk soon. I wish I knew why there's been no contact, in spite of my attempts to do so.

I can't help it. I came home tonight with a song in my mind from long ago...
Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold.
(((hugs)))