12-24-13 RMB Merry Christmas Eve
Merry Christmas Eve Rita Mae Brown,
On the way home from work, I pulled
the car over to call my new desert friend, before getting home and jumping into
Christmas Eve mode with the family. I like how our found family grows as we go
through life. New friendships become unexpected treasures. Hearts and lives
expand to welcome another within our circles.
It is a bit eerie when you get to know
someone and there is the feeling of them returning to the fold, returning to
fill a cosmic place holder kept open, awaiting their particular signature on
your life.
Once home, my sister and I are off to
pick up my nephew trio. They cheerily deliver gifts to Carol, our friend and
their sitter with a pool, although she is a favorite for more reasons than
that. She is family, found family.
After a good meal sprinkled with talk
of the season, elaborating on this special day with three young souls who are
building their life’s holiday memories in these moments, we take leave into a
cool California night. On the way home we stall, giving the mom’s more
Christmas Eve prep time. With Christmas songs playing on the CD, we count
houses with Christmas lights displaying cheer in our neighborhood. We stopped
counting at 300, but got to 311 as we neared the boys’ home.
One of our favorite CD’s is Helen
Reddy singing holiday standards. It takes me back to where she was at the point
in time when she sang those songs, making that CD. Thinking of your notes in
the Monticello
book about the past effecting the future, I marvel at the web of our lives and
the distance our actions travel.
As I settle in at home, emailing my
new friend and writing RMB letters, I am thankful for my blessings.
May your days fill with blessings too,
Loraine
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