Girlfriends

I was just catching up with my friend Kristi's blog; she posts photos almost daily of her beautiful twins, to keep family and friends updated on their lives.  Recently she and another close friend, Cara, spent time together here in California.  I was otherwise occupied with family and work and couldn't join them.  Seeing their pictures on Kristi's blog, realizing how long it's been since I've been around them and their children, just brings home how much a part of me these women are, and probably always will be, no matter how much time and distance separate us.  God, I miss them.

These women are my best girlfriends from college.  We were all TriDelts at UCLA in the mid 1980's.  We were there to help one another transition into graduate life, and then married life, and later, life with children... and for some of us, cancer, adoption, disability, and divorce.   Now, we all live many hours from one another -- one of us, as far away as Chicago.  I don't even have words to express how much I miss their constant presence in my life.  While I have a number of close friendships forged in the time since, I've never found relationships quite like the ones I share with these incredible, wise women, anywhere else I've lived. 

When I do get the rare gift of their time and company, it's nothing short of  food for my soul.

I also have a dear, dear friend from high school I see far too infrequently.  Kelly, I haven't forgotten you; I just don't have a photo to post.

Comments

[Lisa]

Friendships that last over the years are just incredible. Most of us lose touch and what's past is past. A wonderful tribute Shelli.