A Gift

Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "A friend is a gift you give yourself." Indeed! Yesterday my husband and I gave ourselves six gifts. We invited three couples we've known and loved for twenty years to our home for Sunday brunch. We laughed, talked, reminisced, ate, talked and laughed some more. It was a most wonderful afternoon.

Friendship--there is nothing like it.

As Charles and I cleaned up the dishes and put serving bowls and silverware away, we enjoyed going over every detail and decided that we will give ourselves many more such gifts during 2005.