This morning I hauled out my stack of Hawaiian music CD's - it's crucial to start listening to them at just the right time preceding our return to the islands. Started too soon, the time just drags until the day we leave and if one waits to the last moment that is just as bad! I like to get back in the aloha mood about two or three weeks before our flight - we leave on February 19, so this is just about the perfect day! Next week I will start to find my summer clothes and begin making piles of "pack" and "not sure". I pretty much know what to bring, but even so there are a few decisions to make!
It has been a sad few days in the friend department. I lost a dear Pine City friend who died of a brain injury at age 58 - he was a cheerful, positive and loyal friend all through my growing up years and to think of him gone is quite sad. Then a Lilly friend of Steve's, the third person he met there, passed away from brain cancer at age 61 - he had suffered with this for just over a year. Phil was a hard working, innovative and insightful person. His kids went to school with ours, so we knew Phil and Patty in that way too. Steve attended his funeral today. Both deaths are a reminder of how much we need to appreciate each day we are given, and not put off the opportunities to enjoy our families and friends in every way we can.
Tonight I will enjoy my Conversation Club ladies when we meet at Raquel's for an evening of chatting and laughing!!
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