​It is funny, I lost track of many of my California friends when we left southern California in 1991.  I thought of them often but I guess not often enough to stay in touch like I should.  Then Facebook came along and with all its faults (Political backbiting, stalkers, mean people, etc….) it did help to unite old friends and bridge the gaps that existed between us.  We realized how much of other people’s lives we missed, boy it would have been fun to be there for some of their best moments and them with you in your’s.

Today one of those old friends passed away.  I miss what I missed in her life and her in mine.  We spoke on a fairly regular basis over the past year.  First, just to catch up.  then to give me strength when I went through some health issues and then for me to be there when she started the biggest challenge of her life, to live.  She is gone now… She loved Jesus Christ and for those of you who do to…. you know she is better off.  Good Bye my old friend.  R.I.P. Debbie Rosso.

​I often forget why we have kids… It is not to meet a requirement or check a box off in the book of life. It is to have people, yes people, around to remind the world that we existed for a great and noble purpose that only you and god might understand.  We fill page after page on FB posting and talking about our kids, our grand kids or those of the ones we love.  We make them or try to make them in our own images whether they end up Democrats, Republicans, independents or “I don’t give a dams” but we care no matter what they become, not because of what they become but because of who they become.

I care more about the moments we are a part of than the moments they choose to exclude us from.  This weekend I am a part of so many “firsts” in my little girl’s life than I cannot count.  They help to make her the person she will be and I love that!  What a great realization I am going through knowing that three days can change the course of a person’s life and I get to be a part of it.
Thank you God and thank you world!  You are all part of what makes us whole….