Continue reading “pirate friend”When they are real, friendships are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tag: friendship
lucy
This year Charlie Brown will turn 72 in October.
For 72 years Lucy convinces Charlie that she will hold the football so that Charlie may kick it.
For 72 years she mercilessly pulls it away.
It has been 72 years and he still tries.
For the love of Pete! Isn’t anyone ever going to tell Charlie, “Stop playing with Lucy!”
Continue reading “lucy”good to meet you
Over 4 foot-green-apple gum ropes and fireball candies.
That’s how we met.
Mid 1970’s during a high-school baseball game at a snack stand.
Every game thereafter we’d saunter down to the snack stand together during the 7th inning stretch.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
A lot of time has passed since then and our friendship has branched out from the ball park accompanying our shared faith & family life.
How truly blessed we are to have such a long-lasting friendship together.
Where candy continues to (still) be included!
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