Dear Friends are Important

Jan and I went to lunch today to celebrate my birthday, quick before her birthday gets here next week. We tried Common Market up by East Campus since neither of us had been there. We had an enjoyable lunch mostly talking about our dear friend Holley.

Holley was just such a one-of-a-kind and we know we will never meet another like her. We also talked about how sad we are for Holley’s family and her very close friends. The thing about having a known illness is you have a lot of time to say everything you ever wants to say. Holley made it easy for us to do that. It was just such a long goodbye.

After lunch we had to go back to my house for the HVAC guy to come and do some maintenance. Since he parked Jan in we played many hands of Siamese mah Jongg. It was great fun and a wonderful way to celebrate my birthday with my dear friend.

I am just thankful that her knee replacement is healing well and her hair from her cancer treatment is growing back. After what we went through with Holley I need to keep my old friends around.

In the last couple of years I lost three dear long term friends. I know that I can’t live long enough to make new thirty-year friends so I have to keep the ones I have alive. Stay well dear friends. I need you. .