y friend up in Magdalena emailed a few days ago….Are you still here?  There was an exchange back and forth and after a few less than comfortable exchanges,  it was decided that we would meet at a third mutual friend's home in town and i'd bring Pizza.  We did.  

we went back in time,  trying to figure out when we first became friends etc.  And as i figured it would,  the one friend got around to addressing the issue of how i had failed as a friend.  This is nothing new.  

so…we wandered through it all again.  I don't know whether we came to any conclusion,  but we wandered through it.  4 hours.  i think we all were honest.  We all displayed our "filters".   I will be 72 this birthday.  One will be 80.  The third,  most gentle of us is 80 something.    Old Women.  Eating Pizza, drinking red wine and being honest,  each in our own way.  It is what it was.

I had talked to Tina earlier…Our Tina,  who appears here in the comments,  our Tina,  talked to her earlier on the telephone.  About connection.  About the PULSE.  about the concept of "friend".  

so this eve,  i think about how i can sit in the physical presence of someone that i have known for many years.  How i can tap away here to HeartEnergiesOutThere and find deep sisterhood.  No need to go any further.  What is is.  And so.

 

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talking about Tazmeena and place….she puts her self here in this large basket this morning,  and i had to do a double take…she looked so old and thin…like me…she looked so thin faced…in the basket and is she telling me something?    I looked at her tonight and she is her ordinary self,  not  this morning self,  but maybe she can have the basket?

and a PREVIEW

 

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tomorrow.  just this,  for now.  Too many feelings,  too much.  Needs it's own Space.  But Here.  Humming their own Vibration.  eeeeeeee

 

 

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30 responses to “saying goodbye pizza day and “friend”.”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Sisterhood … yes that is us! I love everything about us.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Tazmeena))) what a perfect special spot with a handle for ease of moving!

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Old women settled in their way…what an image. Hard to be ‘honest’ with some though. I have an old friend of thirty plus years I literally walked away from five of six years ago after helping her move her whole life from the sixth floor in the attached building next door to a pretty nice senior supported housing facility on the upper West side that takes 1/3 of one’s income (which, for practically all the residents is very little indeed). There was a long list but her doctors pulled strings…she was 70 + then with Emphasima, Athsma, diabetes, two metal knee replacements, diagnosed mental disorder and a very big dog! She, a recovering alcoholic still had rage problems though, and one day not long after she was settled in up there, she had one of those rages and I suddenly realized that I could no longer do it…said so and let go. Anyhow, recently she showed up on face book through another mutual friend and we were in touch virtually for a while. We spoke on the phone about trying to get together. The old dog who was a sweetie had died and she now has a new dog who is not friendly and “won’t let anyone in the apartment”…other news revealed to me over time as we talked told me that she seemed to be arranging to be isolated, still no friends. Then she stopped using FB, then she let go of her internet service AND can’t get from the bed or lounge chair, into the wheel chair and to the phone in time to catch a call (rings twenty of thirty times then goes to busy). So, for months we’ve been sending snail mails and once in a while she has called but I call her back and don’t get through. Truth is I don’t think either one of us wants to reconnect actually. If only honesty were an option. But how can one be honest anyhow with someone who has so many barriers.
    Sorry…I went on and on about while you had such economy in telling your story. SORRY.
    Tazmeena does look quite old, but dear…still dear.

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Honesty is not always the best policy but sometimes necessary and sometimes not. Sometimes i look at it in terms of positve or negative feedback, and i try to always do or say the positive.

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  5. Patty Avatar

    Everything has a beginning and an end-even friendship. I think
    it’s best to let go and bless. Have done so twice. The folks went
    on to other friendships and I quit banging my head against the
    wall, you may say.

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  6. dee Avatar

    glad you did go on and on.

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  7. dee Avatar

    this meet up seems part and parcel of saying goodbye to this time and place? I am mixed about the usefulness of hashing things out. What may seem like progress to one might feels like re-opening of old wounds to another.

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  8. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I had a friend (quite dear to me) for nearly 40 years. We sort of grew up together. Our daughters were 2 years old together. One day, she writes an email. Doesn’t want to be friends anymore. So, okay. thinking she would get over it. A box arrives with every gift I had ever given her. I cried for hours.
    I feel her absence like a missing tooth–your tongue goes over to the space. My heart goes over to the space. I guess I will never know why.

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  9. Hazel Avatar

    There are days when just the knowing of this circle of sisters holds me upright.

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  10. Deb Avatar

    I disconnected from a friend from college. We struggled together and then separately, but time and distance took it’s toll.Time and distance told the truth that we no longer had any commonalities. For years she only called me as she was struggling to learn computers or the internet. I was a free helpdesk. Even sent hardware.
    Then, there was no response when I needed one the most, deep in grief. I made the break with no explanation. It happens.

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  11. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Grace—forgot to ask what those fabulously died items are? From Deb?

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oooooops–“dYed” (ha)

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  13. cathy Avatar

    Tazmeena may sense you are moving and want to nest in the basket, be safe. Soft blanket underneath her…yes.

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  14. cathy Avatar

    oh yes, Deb…been there & done that in very similar circumstances.

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  15. Dana Avatar

    It sounds like loops are closing, like Tazmeena’s basket. Pretty soon you can pick up your life and take it away. The need for your friend to review your failures on her behalf remind me of some relatives of ours. If we are with them for over a couple of hours (sometimes less) we are reimmursed in the story of the difficulty of their early married life and how much easier we had it. We were the favored ones, apparently and they were the poor cousins. All of this took place in the sixties. I’m bored, but they aren’t. Some people enjoy the stories they have concocted. We continue to listen because they do enjoy it and it doesn’t hurt us.

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  16. grace Avatar

    so much, Sisterhood…..how we have All magnetized Each Other

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  17. grace Avatar

    she only likes it mid morning…when the Sun is warming it….

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  18. grace Avatar

    and part of the thing is that since i got rid of my huge
    futon bed and now sleep on that skinny cot thing, she
    can’t sleep with me anymore…i know that bothers her

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  19. grace Avatar

    yeah…in that pic…old and kind of ratty, but it was
    just for that moment, she’s still her quite excellent self…
    i love your sharing this story….it helps inform my understanding
    of my own situation. So..thank you.
    I could never give her what she wanted, and in the early days
    i always was clear about that….but somehow the illusion that
    i might i guess was always there.
    She keeps a little list in her head of all the times
    i disappointed her…it’s interesting, really.
    but we went through it all again and came out the other side
    again and now i will go. I wish her well.

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  20. grace Avatar

    the really great thing i learned from this friendship was
    to simply be honest and make no excuses….
    this was a hard thing to learn.

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  21. grace Avatar

    yes….to let it go. even in this instance, she hoped
    to mold it into something that it never could have been
    then or now.
    i just said in the end…well, we DID have some good
    things that were GOOD. and they stand.

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  22. grace Avatar

    yeah, i hoped we could just enjoy the moment. The third
    woman is well aware of what all it was, so came as no
    surprise to her….and the friend just needed to, i guess.
    Just one more time.
    If we continue, as in email or even snail mail,
    it will probably go on as it always has. Maybe it
    serves good purpose for her??? I don’t know.

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  23. grace Avatar

    that’s a beauty Full analogy, or is it really a metaphor…
    so strong an image….
    i do think we owe it to each other to be clear about the WHY.

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  24. grace Avatar

    you hold a lot of Us upright too

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  25. grace Avatar

    hmm…i just said above that we “owe” the Why….i know your
    Grief, and i would also just break it in that context….

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  26. grace Avatar

    YES!!!! and i will get back to them…they need a Page of
    their own.

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  27. grace Avatar

    am watching her habits as things rearrange here….today, Saturday, it’s all different again with the new boxes

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  28. grace Avatar

    yes…i am thinking of it in this way more, after all these
    so thoughtful comments…
    that for whatever reason, it serves a purpose for her
    and i guess for me, too, ongoing, because even though this
    was a GoodBye day, i didn’t apologize for anything i didn’t
    feel sorry for. That’s taken a lifetime to get to.

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  29. Mo Crow Avatar

    it could be the perfect familiar place for her to feel safe when you move to the Hill

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