old friends

nice to spend some time with R and M tonight; R and i have been friends for 28 years... wow. been through so much together - college, real estate, marriage(s), kids, parents getting older, homeopathy college, grandparents dying, different courses on spiritual growth... she taught me how to type; one of the best things i've ever learned. one of the things i am really liking about growing older is this sense of personal evolution. a bunch of things that used to be important, no longer are. and the same with my friends, of a certain age. and equally a bunch of things that used to seem silly, are now important and worthy of attention. she's just been on a retreat where there was 2 days of silence; i've just learned how to play chords on the guitar. i sound like crap; she snuck into the bathroom and phoned home on her cell. and we're doing fine... still growing.