Friday, December 12, 2014

Day 5

Greeted this day by sun and cold in the same breath. 19 degrees outside, a fire inside, and the sun beginnig its work of warming the day.


This last full day brings reunion with an old friend. Annually we dine at Los Rancho de Chimayo, where we report on the past year and marvel that a past year has once again occurred. 

Much of the richness of this northern New Mexico Advent travel are the reunions of old friends. Three extraordinary women who have enriched my life. 

I've learned that one of these friends has only months to live. Heartbreaking news. But in the midst of this reality, we have found deeper conversation, and the truth of knowing my time this time is finite. 

Oddly, that is a gift.  Another already but not yet. 

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