Monday, November 24, 2008

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Cherishing A Symbol Of Friendship-- The Yellow Rose*










When I was a wee Brownie & later a Girl Scout-- "Make new friends & keep the old, one is Silver & the other's Gold...", was a favorite song.  Here we are now sooo many decades later, former mini skirted boomers of the 21st Century-- The song still rings true.

This past Saturday a dear friend from those many years ago hosted a quaint "Yellow Rose Brunch" at her family's former home in the Bruce Springsteen kind of town where we all grew up, as that Master Charge commercial would say-- It was "Priceless"!                                               The three of us all moms now, & two of us even grandmothers, were amazed that we were finally able to set aside a mutual date with all the busyness that we all get so caught up with for a Thanksgiving Holiday.

From High School to--  Life's School.  The present, back to the past, ever fleeting like a yellow rose, our friendships are beautiful, delicate & heart warming.  My friends from High School have all experienced the different & varied chapters & textures that life brings us all, but with it a renewed sense of who we were & who we've become, for till the end of our time here on this earth we are always becoming....

This special time of our teen aged years has rooted us to a "Historic Time & Place" in our garden of life--  "Friendship is the Wine of Life."  I thank God for my precious friends of that delicate era & I so thank *them, for we were *always there for one another--  truly in sickness & in health & we made it through it all, just as I thank God for the family & friends I am involved with in this era.  
                                                                                                                                                           *Aristotle taught--  "Life without friends would be very, very sparse indeed."   I more than agree!  
                                                                                                                                                                 

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