Cultivating a Life of Gratitude

I am committing myself, during 2010, to attempt to cultivate a greater awareness of how much I have to be thankful and grateful for by sharing my daily findings and musings with you. It is my hope that by blogging about gratitude, I will be more aware of what is going on around me in my life, my family, my friends' lives and our world.

November 5, 2010

Communication

I have a friend named Kim.  We met while attending Bethel COLLEGE.  We sang in the choir together and bonded over PB and J picnics and butter flavored pretzel balls.  We enjoyed competing against each other, playing handheld solitaire games, while on long bus tours with the choir through the heartland of our country.   She is a lifelong friend because even while I married a Minnesotan right after college and she moved to Atlanta for her career, we stayed in touch through many cell phone conversations and emails.  The love of her life found her and he just so happens to be Portuguese.  This past summer, they were married at a beautifully themed retro/travel wedding held at a plantation home in Georgia and shortly after, Kim moved to Portugal to be with Luis.  I am thankful for all of the various ways technology has changed, even in the past FIVE years.  We are able to keep in touch and 'view' each other through many various means of communication.  She reads my blog and adores E-man videos.  I was given a virtual tour of her home through video chat a month or so ago.  Technology has allowed us to continue our friendship even though a continent and ocean separate us.  So many of my relationships have changed and evolved as technology has advanced and I wonder sometimes, if those friendships would still be intact if letter writing were the main form of 'keeping in touch'.  While I appreciate a handwritten card or note more than most people, I am also thankful for the MANY ways communication happens in my daily life with people all over MN, the US and our world!  

1 comment:

  1. I love technology too! So so so thankful for the time we get to keep in touch, and so thankful for your friendship. :) And I think you forgot to mention that the wedding wouldn't have been quite as nice without your voices and fingers playing the music! I must introduce PB&J pincics to Luis Miguel (even though he was not interested in my PB & banana treat this week!) and hunt for a way to make butter pretzel balls at home... ??? Ahhh memories. :) LOVE YOU, SNUG!

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