Jared wrote recently...
But the funny thing about friends is that too often you only appreciate them when they are leaving. It’s only then that you realize they had become a significant part of your life, something you had relied on . . . and without them you feel a bit more rickety than you did before. You realize that you are just an old house on stilts that didn’t realize how important that stilt was until it fell. And now, without that friend, it’s a tricky balancing act to stay upright.
A friend of mine is in the process of filling out applications requiring references that go back for years--which made me wonder if I could think of a similar list in my own life. There is a friend from high school and another from university and one from church. These are folks I've known for years yet they are not the ones closest to me--in fact, we've be out of touch for a good period of time somewhere in the middle of it all. The closest ones I have only known for 3-5 years. Perhaps I am more transient that I think. For sometimes I feel quite solitary in my little ocean. So, please sail by sometime and drop anchor.