Some people are blessed enough to have the perfect friend. This is mine. This summer we will celebrate twenty-eight years together. I have contemplated the concept of "becoming one." I believe that when two people come together they each bring their gifts and qualities. When those attributes are perfected and refined and they unite them; they can become one perfect entity. e.e.cummings, one of my favorite poets said,

"one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:" Oh, how true! With desirous hearts two can come together and work toward becomming one. I remember my daughter once asking me, "You do know you have the perfect husband, right Mom?" Is he a perfect person? No. Is he perfect for me? Absolutely.

My nieces and nephew have been trying to get me to blog for--oh, three years anyway. I always thought it was rather self-preoccupied to think that anyone would want to read what I had to say. But then several time I tried to post on one of their blogs and it wouldn't let me because I wasn't a "blogger." So I finally decided to set one up just so I could post. After calling my niece, who by the way deserves kudos for helping her computer-ignorant aunt (ha, I just wrote anut instead of aunt; Freudian slip I suppose) set up a blog, I decided to do it. It wasn't until after she helped me that she confessed that you really can post without being a blogger!

I love writing but I am a terrible journal keeper--go figure. I guess I always worry that what I write will be recorded forever and what if its the wrong thing? Maybe this will help me. Maybe it will be another way to keep in touch with my married children and my family across the US. If it accomplishes only this one thing it will be worth it.

I have been reading C.S. Lewis the past couple of days. What a brilliant mind. He made a statement that has really caused me to think.

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which , if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship..."

What if we really did have the desire and ability to see all those around us as they one day would be? What if we were able to gaze into someone's heart instead of merely seeing their actions? Would we not treat every person, including the disheveled transient as though they were royalty?

Interesting thought which is easily accepted and most difficulty accomplished.