The most wonderful thing about becoming a blogger besides exposing my work, succeeding with my art career, and just being in the know... ya know? (hee hee) is the friends! I have met the most wonderful people online and just a few of them, just enough to fit in my palm have become near and dear (you know who you are)... one I have had for many years and many more to come (way before blogging), some are new and I know we too, will journey miles along together. Aside from the chatting, emails, and quick little notes here and there discussing everything from friendship and life, to everyday things and children... the best things are the hand written and sent items. There's so much you can tell about someone from the gifts they pick and their own personal hand writing. There is something magical about a friend, and extra magical about a pen pal.
My nearest and dearest stretch from Texas, to England, Hawaii, and right here in my home turf ;)
The world in your direct path although seeming so large, is sometimes so small... especially when you are a creative. Being an artist can be incredibly isolating as you see things differently than everyone else... you experience things different. When you find someone that fits like a cozy granny square blanket and when they actually know what a granny square is... and even better yet, know how to make one!? well then that's just golden! Don't get me wrong, I have very dear friends who have no idea how to make a granny sqaure and I love them just as much! all friendships are individualistic and different in their own ways.
Today I wanted to give you a wee peek at the lovelies I have recieved this spring.
I have to come up with a creative way to keep my gifties so that I can look at them and read them whenever I want. Some of my favorites are pinned up at my work space and I rotate them so I can enjoy them always, but I think some sort of book or smash book would be wonderful. Someday I hope my kids will have fun going through moms things and seeing/reading special notes between special friends.
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a precious thing and if you have had the privilege of sharing and continue to share your life with people who care about you in the most genuine of ways then you have riches beyond compare. People who play an active role in your life and you in theirs are few and far between.
I may not have a large group of friends, but the ones I have are worth the whole worlds population of friends!
Friends near AND friends afar... friends afar AND friends who are near... all charms on the gold bracelet of life.
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
I count myself blessed. Very blessed. There is no feeling like feeling a kindred-ship with another. As humans we are continuously looking for a connection. Connection with each other, connection with ourselves... connection with our spouses. When we feel like someone "gets" us... that we have common interests and can communicate in a non effort kind of way, we feel whole. It is in our journey through life that we collect friends like we collect anything else. It's trying some on, and taking some off that we find just the right fit. Ooooh, you feel cozy! I love you!
Everything you see today was made or sent to me by some very special friends. There were many other items, but some things I like to hold near to me and only me as they are personal and dear. I hope you have deep special bonds with some really unique or even boring people... because you love them and they love you... and in the end that's all that matters.
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
- Samuel Johnston
