Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A Heart Shared

For days I have been mulling things in my head to write about....so much to say, but not sure that all is worthy of being said. Today, I heard from a friend, Alison. A high school friend whom I have not spoken to in years. To say I am Facebook unsavvy would be putting it quite graciously, but that is how Alison reached out to me.

I am a firm believer that nothing is random. Today, as I was contemplating all that is and was, I get an email from her via Facebook, "Just wanted to let you know: back in high school you gave me a little silver heart pendant on a chain. I put it on a silk cord, and now my little daughter wears it all the time. And every time she does, I think of you! Hope good fortune follows you everywhere, Alison."

My immediate reaction was tears not born of sadness, but of remembrance; of a gift given and for the passage of time that would see that gift now worn by a friend's child. Where does time go? How do we spend it? share it? give it?

To know that a small token of friendship passes on to another generation is like knowing that life doesn't stop...it continues. Like friendships born of understanding and sharing; like love shared at various depths; like a future yet to be experienced but secured by the knowledge that our past has set a solid foundation for us to move forth...that is what I feel.

Thank you Alison for passing on a token of our friendship so that it may live on with your daughter and in our memories and hearts!

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I am a mother to four beautiful children who have taught me more than I believe I have taught them; they have also been the inspiration to the products I have developed to help pregnant and nursing moms.