What Joy - A Childhood Friend Reconnects

There are so many joys and new experiences to be discovered, personally and professionally through the many aspects of the world of the internet. With Countryside Connection's swift and steady growth increasingly bringing members and new visitors from around the world together every day, the joys of my business life are enriched and enhanced on a regular basis. However, last week the most wonderful and unexpected email arrived in my Inbox through my website: http://www.countrysideconnection.com/ . A friend I have known all of my life (her father and my mother were once 'promised to one another', then each met and married another wonderful person and the four became the best of friends).

As the years past, two children were born into her family and three in mine. Sharon, her sister Carole and I were always reminded by their father that I could have been his first daughter, and with great love and joy he treated me as his third daughter and they 'adopted' me as the other sister. Their mother and mine shared so much in life as did our fathers, making us, with the later addition of my two brothers, one big happy extended family. As young children, we all lived in New York City and then six months apart both families moved across country and settled in Southern California. The friendship and family gatherings continued throughout our childhood and into adulthood.

Sadly, as so often happens with marriages, travels, life changes and relocations, we somehow lost touch. Sharon decided one night that she had spent long enough thinking and wondering about where I was and what was happening that she decided to google my name and immediately discovered my websites among the listings. Now, my dear, dear friend, so unique and fantastic is back in my life and we are in the throes of catching up on lost years and wasted time without contact.

How many people do you know, or have ever heard of who are qualified, lawyers, teachers, belly dancers, manicurists . . . Well, MY FRIEND SHARON IS FOR ONE and I am filled with joy that she and I are reunited! Watch this space as I learn more ~ don't know about you, but I cannot wait . . .

Why not google someone you have been out of touch with for too long. You never know what you might discover has happened in the intervening years. I hope that you take the time and that you are left filled with the same full heart and permanent smile that I have had since Sharon's first email arrived. I wish you joyous reunions and would love to hear about them.