Making truly good friends for me has been a "sometimes" thing...itinerancy does not always provide the fertile soil of extended time, or the sunny rays of energy that it takes to grow the deep, true friendships that I sometimes have thought would be nice to have. Over the past year and a half or so, somehow, someway, through a gift of the spirit, I have been graced with a handful of very wonderful friendships with persons whom I did not know, or at least did not call true friends, five years ago. My life at times has been a solitary thing, not a sad thing, really, but often lived alone. I probably have had two really close friends over the past twenty years, in addition to Philip, my former husband--my relationship with him defies any word or model I really have witnessed anywhere else (I'll save that for another blog!) I think most probably that at least a significant part of my personal life's work for the rest of my life, will be to learn how to allow myself to be known well by trusted freinds. I am glad God has provided me with those persons. The superintendency, I know, can be a lonely thing. The greatest concern I have, aside from how this parenting thing will work, is how to continue to foster deep friendships, showing care and being cared for, in the midst of it.
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Thanks. Just of course, wondering who you might be...and I may should know but district superintendentdom has left me kind of dumb.
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