IN HONOR OF GIRLFRIENDS

This morn I was feeling the need to call someone to hang out with on my morning walk. I wanted, no, needed, some girlfriend time. As I thought about it my phone started humming letting me know I had received a text message. It was from a woman, a neighbor, whom I had met and had known since I moved to this area. We'd talk on and off. I've supported her in some of her " I Love Lucy" schemes and she'd support me when I wanted to go off on some uncharted not well thought out plan. But, all and all, we'd laugh and generally kept one another in check. I was happy to see that she wanted to go walking - even though the temp was at 100 degrees! Well, this turned out to be a BAD idea - I almost passed out from the heat!!!! Whew. Yet, even in this heat, she and I started a conversation about life. We talked about our upbringing, our families, understanding now how what was modeled to us by our family created the persona we see and are today. We compared our our lives and came to know that we both came from similar socio - economic backgrounds. We were in awe of how we went from an environment of struggling economically to a life that our parents could only dream of - nice homes, nice cars, air conditioning, not worry about food - to name a few. How we need to say prays of gratitude each and every day - not just for STUFF, but for all we have in our lives. We talked about our hopes and dreams - our worries and concerns. We talked about what we wanted for ourselves and for our families. We discussed how our mindset about money was formed and strategies we've had to create in order to "make that change" to understand, appreciate and control money and not let money control us. We talked about successes and some "not so successes" , and were able to place them in a proper perspective. She talked me thru my fear of an upcoming unknown . I smiled and talked about how life is about creating - we create it as we go along. We spoke about how we use to have the mindset that we would do something "when the time was right" and that we now realize that the time is right when WE say its right - you just have to just do it. Our 45 min walk turn into a 2 hour "girlfriend" therapy session. It was well worth it, almost heat stroke and all - lol. A male colleague recently told me that August 7th is national girlfriend day. I had not heard this but if its true I started the celebration early. Hug, love, and appreciate a girlfriend today :0). OH, BTW - THE WOMAN SITTING IN THE CHAIR - MY GIRLFRIEND, DIANN. WE WENT TO ELEMENTARY, JR AND HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER. AND, WE'VE BEEN GIRLFRIENDS FOR 45 YEARS.