the gift of soul sisters

I am settling back in after a weekend away with beautiful women. Women whom have blessed my life for 28 years. Wowzers!!! As I write that it blows me away, how is it that 28 years have passed? how fortunate am I to have this sister bond with these beautiful ladies?..... If you are fortunate enough in life, your friends become your family, and for me these women definitely have. Our paths have been interwoven since high school and some longer. The ebb and flow of these friendships have always been a constant. Through the evolution of ourselves and the different paths we have all chosen to take, the connection and bond has only cemented itself further. We have been through so much together; Immature shenanigans, our first loves, heartbreaks, first apartments, first homes, weddings, the birth of our children, the soon marriage of some of our children (WTF)..the loss of loved ones.....and all the beautiful grit that lies in between. You can not fake this type of friendship, 28 years exposes it all and we choose to love each other anyway. Often times we get caught up in the whirlwind of life, moments like this past weekend have only solidified how important it is to take time to continue to nurture the gifts that people can be. Not everyone gets to have this. This is something special. To have know women from the gate and watch them unfold in their 40's, is being able to witness the metamorphosis of what a women can become. I have had a front row seat to the evolution and spreading of wings of all of these women and what a gift and inspiration that has been. I recently laid a little pebble stone trim where walls once stood in my home. I decided to make this a practice in gratitude, each stone I laid there is a person, moment or gift that I am grateful for. I couldn't help but begin to cry as I moved my way along the trim. I was so overwhelmingly blanketed in all the beauty, people and gifts that have blessed this life of mine. I saw it all. Happy moments, sad, blissful, peaceful, fearful, hurtful, comical, loving.....through every bit of it there has been beautiful people who have held, loved, supported and nurtured me.....i am forever grateful. Taking the time to reflect on the years that have passed and the people who have touched them is something I encourage everyone to do. You realise pretty quickly that you have never been alone and throughout it all there has been a constant weaving of love, care and kindness. So to those beautiful soul sisters who have held me, loved me, listened to me, laughed with me, cried with me,

encouraged me.....please know that I am so grateful. You have blessed this life of mine more than you will ever know. ......and to anyone else who has ever touched my life, I can guarantee that you are one of the 1000 pebbles that lay in the beautiful trim that adorns our home. Much love and many blessings to you all ~D xx