A Californian friend and son in ‘06

This afternoon a fellow SpongeBob fan, 9 year old Sophia, came over to help in the garden. Her parents are friends we met in the last year. She and I planted some kale seedlings. Kale is a semiannual perennial, but last year everyone was reporting kale not returning. So I grew some new plants from seeds and today, sunny and warm, some of the seedlings went on their own into a mound.

A friend from Church we have known for about 5 years has a daughter who is disabled. I advocated for the adult daughter getting rent assisted housing and today we three, mother, adult daughter and I went over to pick up the key and finish the paperwork for a very nice apartment at very affordable price.

For a Middle Eastern dinner tonight a young couple came over. Both set of their parents were friends, as we were with both sets, in the 60′s. One parent couple had gone to Ireland to live, where they had the young man who came over tonight. The other parent couple moved to rural Wisconsin and had the young woman who came over tonight. After about 16 years the one parent couple returned from Ireland. The two parent couples got together for a visit and the teenage boy and girl met for the first time. Skip ahead many years and now they are married and have careers here in Milwaukee.

Our new friends and our old friends have children who now are friends. Like a garden renewing with new plants from the seeds of the old plants, our friends’ children renew friendships in our lives.

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