Thoughts About My Dear Friend

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I have felt rather sad lately. The topper was when I saw a post on FB a while back from my BFFs daughter saying how much she misses her mom. You see she had some issues with blood clots and was in the hospital. She was doing better and was to be released the next day. She had a massive heart attack and passed away. That was December 20, 2021. I tried not to think about this on that day because it is also my granddaughter's birthday and I wanted to be positive and not gloomy. A character, Aloysius T. McKeever, in a favorite holiday film, "It Happened on Fifth Avenue" said something that really made me think when I watched the movie again a few days ago. He said: "To be without friends is a serious form of poverty." And it is. Especially when you've had the best for 55+ years. She was a dear person/human being. I have some extraordinary memories and I am so thankful she was in my life and I had the extreme honor of knowing her. I hope that I was even half as good a friend to her as she was to me. A few sayings I like: A good friend knows all your best stories, A best friend has lived them with you. Nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” ? Dinah Maria Craik