Posted by Loulou on Mar 10, 2018 | 16 comments

Well, mama just got back from a visit to a friend of almost thirty five years who lives up the road in our little town, but who does not go out much any longer because her feet are really bothering her and she is afraid she might fall easily, plus she is a bit frail anyway.  But mama and papa love to go up to see her and her wonderful husband and take lunch and hang out a bit.  But they have trouble finding the time.

NOW HEAR THIS:  Time is not LOST.

Mama’s portrait of Gigi.  Wouldn’t you like to spend time with her, so twinkly and smiley?

Here’s what’s wrong with this picture:  mama is too much in a hurry sometimes and thinks she’s going to just drop in and say hello and leave a magazine that the lady loves and then rush, rush, rush back home to do whatever it is that mama does, and on this particular occasion, mama was gone an hour and a half and I sort of wondered what was up, but mama came back all smiley and touched and exhilarated that she had managed to spend time with her very close friend.

I think my message here is just to go for it.

Old friends, new friends, and those you love want to be with you and spend quality time with you, and mama told me that at a certain point in the nice visit, she realized that this dear, dear friend might not be around one day to chat and laugh and enjoy lunches with and that any time she could spend with her was golden .  Time to be cherished.  Time that is always there if you just use it well.

I know I wrote in another blog about how mama went up to Fellini and interrupted his private coffee-after-dinner time and also went over to a famous soccer player’s table at a restaurant and another time, went right up to Jack Palance, the actor, to tell him how much she loved his films, and after all of these times she was so, so glad to have done it because Signor Fellini was dead within three months, and the others were simply happy to have someone recognize them and say something nice to them!

Remember “Shane”?

So if you ever think of hesitating when a friend asks to chat or visit with you or you hang back from going up to someone you admire, DON’T.  Every minute with friends (or sometimes strangers) is precious and memorable, and I, for one, have decided to spend all of my waking hours with mama and papa so that they’ll feel happy that I purred on their heads and snuggled between them in their bed and I know they will thank me for that!

Uh, oh, waking hours?

I’m not sure I’m going to find time for that.