Friends

I don't recall where I found this so cannot attribute to the source but just acknowledge it is not original with me.

"Friendships are like a flower garden in the backyard. We tend to care for it but find it easy to put off to another day."

I think about the wonderful friends I have had over the years and how special they were. Yet, like the quote, it is so easy to put off nurturing that friendship to another day. Usually it happens when we move to a new city or state and distance inevitably attenuates our connection.

We plant new flowers in our friendship garden which bloom nicely but the flowers of friends past weakly bloom or wilt. Perhaps that is at it should be but never the less, I am nostalgic for for the beauty that once was.