Life: Idiotropic

Here's to possibilities past and present.

The house seems quiet to me at the moment - that bittersweet quiet that happens when you're lost in a thought. (That and the children are outside.)

Sigh.

I just had a quick impromptu unexpected and absolutely delightful visit over a cup of tea with a friend who I have not seen or talked to in two years. And she lives 10 minutes away.

No fight. No disagreement. No falling out. Just one day, her life got busy and my life got busy and pretty soon we were so lost in busy that when briefly life would slow for just a second, we would turn to our separate circles and forget that we were just 10 minutes away.

It's sad. So today we shared tea and a short, but lovely chat, and now I'm moving and have to add her to the growing list of goodbyes and yet we're looking at each other after two years and thinking this feels more like a hello and shouldn't we try to connect a few more times before good bye?

I drove by another friend's house today - another woman that I met when I first got here and thought, wow, if only I could be her friend, and then, lucky me, I was, and then we got busy.

I'm starting to really get bugged by "busy." I'm missing out on some incredible people. But, today's connection is good. And instead of letting the awkwardness of time get between us, I am going to try to connect, even for a moment to these treasures - these people with which I shared momentary, but precious time.

Totally unrelated photo... one taken today as I contemplate a new project...