About a year or two ago I met Lois in passing and recently we met again by coincidence. It is both interesting and timely that we have met just now. I am at a point of huge transition and looking for a creative link to the community and she too is at a similar junction. We have had the chance to have planned time together over the past few days and it has been nice. We have had a lot to talk about and I think that we two ladies will share some very nice days together in future. We both find a lot of significance in our family, we are both people watchers, which is really great since we can spend time together without the need for words, even though our friendship is in very early days. We both lean in the same direction and have kids who are at the age where we women start to have our own time and need a new beginning. We have also both moved from place to place and we are both creative women. In short, it is a friendship that has a beautiful, start.
Last night we went out to see an art show and it was so fun! There we were, two grown women really enjoying being out past dinner time in the downtown for a simple inexpensive evening of walk and chatter. To have the opportunity to be with another grown up who we are not married to. Such a simple and unexpected pleasure to be a woman who is out for the evening with another like minded person of the same gender. I had really forgotten what it is like to spend time with a new friend who is in the same place as you are because when women marry and have children they are so busy being mom that they don’t have the chances that they had in university to gather in the same ways. I certainly, and I think Lois too, with all the moves and kids could not keep up with those really important female friendships.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that meeting Lois, might be the nicest thing that has happened to me in a long while!
