last week, our family had a lovely visit with our friends laura, mykl, osha and soma. they had traveled from Nanaimo, B.C. and were doing the rounds with family and friends. pretty amazing that our first overnight guests at the farm, came from such a distance!
actually, over the years, some of the most memorable memories with friends have been these, short, concentrated visits when quality time is spent together. we have other friends in our lives who have moved far away... whenever they would come home, we would ensure that our plans revolved around seeing them. somehow, it took them leaving for us to recognize the preciousness of our time together and that an effort needed to be made to see each other physically. we can remember all of our visits with them well. this is partly because it doesn't happen often, we tend to go to new places, meet new people, eat at a different restaurant, do activities we wouldn't normally and so on. we savour the conversation, the interaction, the awe of how much bigger the children have become and look forward to our next meeting. this visit was no exception!
so, as much as we'd like to have all of our friends close by-we also love having them far away-cuz seeing them when we do makes it all the sweeter!!!!
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I'm glad you had such a wonderful visit. I think I understand what you mean. Sometimes someone could live right next door but the quality of visits isn't the best but when someone lives far away the quality of the visit is high because we may not see them for a while.
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