Old Friends and New Friends

 I often feel so fortunate to have friends.  But only a few are "old friends".  These are the ones who knew you when you were that uncertain 13 year old who did crazy stuff with you like climbing on the old bridge railing to get "glamor" photos of each other and did sleep overs.  Those are few and far between.  But then you meet folks a bit later in life who become good friends that you can count on to drop everything to take you to the Dr. or plan their schedule to take you to have a procedure where you need a driver.  Those friends are few also.  But also are all those close acquaintances who you call friends too.  You see them at meetings, at stores, and they come to see you to visit from time to time.  Sometimes you maintain friendships with neighbors that you have had in other states.  The last year or so we female family members who live fairly close to each other started having monthly lunches at different local restaurants.  It started out with just 5 of us, but then we invited the grand dtrs, dtr in laws, great grand dtrs. and and a couple new babies.  So it has expanded and sometimes hard to find places to get together.  This month it will be a pizza place that has a big room.  So these ladies are also my friends.  Then sometimes you are lucky enough to find a friend that you have never met, who lives in another state, but has ties to your local town.  These can be special friends that you share things with,

I guess partly because maybe they see the deeper side of you that others can't perceive .  Maybe it is to complicated to put in words, but if that person reads this I hope they see themselves and tell me why I feel that way.  So today I am sharing my gratitude for friends new and far.