Friendships

The past few weeks have been a time of awareness for me and quite a few of my very dear old friends. With the event of Sara's passing we all have become aware of something that we know but don't see the real meaning of it until we loose someone. I have always known that we should always try to keep in touch with those that we hold dear for tomorrow may come and they won't be around.

I went to Sara's wake this past Friday and met up with several old friends and as usual started talking right where we had left off.

I had a visit from two old friends that I had not seen for more than a year and we took up the same old habits that we always had. They came by because of Sara and because they were in church and hearing a sermon about not loosing touch with those you care about. This seems to be the theme for us all this past month. I hope that we all take care of old friendships and not wait to meet up at a wake to realize that we should of stayed in touch.

So everyone of you call that old friend that has been on your mind but you just have not made the time to get back with. Tomorrow may be too late.

Enjoy this poem about friends... somehow it seems appropriate.

NEW FRIENDS AND OLD FRENDS

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will, mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test--
Time and change--are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray;
Friendship never knows decay.
For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we reach and youth renew.
But old friends, alas! may die;
New friends must their place supply;
Cherish friendships in your breast--
New is good, but old is best;
Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold

Author: Joseph Parry

ciao, Norma