Ok, so renwick won THIS round of the Broken Game

What Sort of Romantic Are You?
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of journeys and destinations, or something like that

Yesterday when I opened my front door I came upon a wonderful surprise - a package from my best friend of 15 years! YAY! SHTUFF!!!

Funny too, I had just been contemplating how much I miss getting snail-mail from people. I like letters, and post cards thrill me too. I once told my friend to just say hi once in a while and let me know he's alive via mail. He sent me a single sheet of notebook paper that read, "Hi. I'm alive."

I loved it!!!

But so I opened the package and found several old photos from when we were teenagers in VA, some of her wedding pix with her hubby, a GORGEOUS windchime that I cannot descibe in writing at all, and little red book with hands on the front.

I *heart* hands!

There was a card inside too - no writing from her, just a beautiful little ditty about happiness. She knows I have been struggling with work and school and just finding myself the past few years, so reading this just warmed my heart:

happiness is a journey not a destination

for a long time it seemed to me that
life was about to begin - real life but
there was always some obstacle in the
way, something to be gotten through
first, some unfinished business, time
still to be served, a debt to be paid.
at last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life. this perspective
has helped me to see there is no way
to happiness. happiness is the way. so
treasure every moment you have and
remember that time waits for no one.

Yeah, she knows more than I give her credit for sometimes, I think.

Thank you, Ami. I love you, sweetie.

crrrrrrrrrrACK!!!

( I'm some kinda weird horsey!! YAY! )