our gatherings

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Added: Sun. Dec 02, 2007 12:16pm
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(Note: about a dozen classmates from high school and their spouses gather once a year at various locations simply to enjoy again the pleasure of each others' company)


I was thinking about our annual gatherings... if someone asked me to compare them with something, I think I would compare them to jumping into a pile of clean warm sheets just out of the dryer or jumping into pile of leaves on a fall afternoon.... when you are captured in those sheets or covered with those leaves, worries are banished and time stands still for a moment, and that scientific construct of time being an arrow is broken... you are lost in the moment and your mind is free to transcend time - and it is so easy to find yourself back in 1952, 1953, 1954... classmates, times, events are vividly recalled and embraced... whether the past event is only recalled by one or mutually shared, they bring laughter to all as we relive days long gone by yet just around the corner...

others look at us and see faces and bodies beyond their years of youth... yet, when we look at each other, we wisely look into each other's eyes and see the warmth, love and caring that still resides there after all these many years... our gatherings are special times to be enjoyed with special people we have kept as part of our lives for well over 50 years... they are a gathering of still 18 year olds, fifty plus years later...

when I pause to count my blessings, among them I most treasure is each of you, my friends, and for that I thank you...