Reconnected

An old friend found me on facebook a week ago and we had our first face to face visit this past Wednesday. It'd been 7 years since I'd last seen her. In less than two hours we caught up a lot before I had to go to work. We plan on getting together for a day and catching up further, but we've been texting every night and I have a feeling that she has a lot of stories to tell me still.

It's amazing that with friends you can go long years without seeing one another, maybe just fleeting glimpses, or hearing a word about them here and there, but then you see them again and it's as if no time has passed at all. Yes, we look older, yet in her face I see the woman she was. In her voice I hear the good and the bad, the fun and the mischief...and the love that exists between true good friends.

She always wanted to be a writer but it never went anywhere. Her son, who is eight years older than Kelly and liked to build LEGO with her, grew up to be an artist (metal sculpture) and lives in Florida. Kelly grew up to be a writer and a mechanical engineer with a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering. When she visited she took home a carton full of books. Last night we were chatting about writing a book together. Maybe reconnecting with her at this time and place in her life will renew the spark of her own creativity and she'll finally write that book that's in her. She and I are very different, yet we have common threads in our lives that link us heart to heart.

I'm glad she's back because she's brought new colors to my life when I needed them. Let's see what happens from here! (I feel new stories on the horizon!)