Last Friday a dear friend had me over for lunch for my birthday, and it was so sweet and perfect. She served my favorite lunch food: tunafish sandwich, ice tea, and we even ate a bit of plum cake. I am the kind of gal that you can take bets on what I will order out. For lunch it is tunafish, for dinner it depends on the place, but spicy and maybe with beets would be a good bet. And a beer.
Then she thrilled me by having printed out sheet music to my current favorite song "You Can Close Your Eyes" and the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" that was in the first Shek movie. She played her piano and we sang and harmonized and she pulled out more songs for us to try. I began crying, because it is such a comfort to have a friend who knows me so well, who SEES me. I have more than one of these, so I am truly blessed. We had such a good time it was hard to stop.
Special times are often simple times, and don't involve expensive tickets or exotic locales. As I get older, I enjoy most the meeting of minds and hearts in a quiet setting with room to laugh and cry and settle in to the deep comfort of a long relationship. I'll not forget my Friday afternoon.
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