Girl Friend Medicine

Dear Sweet Girlfriend Barbara:

Your inviting me to meet with you for breakfast in celebration of my 82nd birthday was so filled with delight, I kept laughing and chuckling the rest of the day whenever I remembered us sitting together at the northern Scottsdale bakery-cafe.

I had never been to this bakery-cafe, so I was looking forward to checking it out. You can't have too many bakeries to visit is my belief. This small bakery was different than any other I have ever experienced because of their bread slicing machine. 

Now over the years I've been to numerous bakeries and had bread sliced. It's no more than waiting a minute or so for the person behind the counter to slice and bag the bread. At this bakery it was unlike any bread slicing I had ever experienced before, When the bread slicing machine was being used, it emitted such a loud sound, so loud, that when we were talking, we had to shout to one another. 

The bakery was busy. That meant a lot of bread was being sliced, which involved a lot of uproarious laughter going on between the two of us as we conversation-shouted at each other. We spent two delightful hours catching up with one another's lives punctuated by uncontrollable high spirited laughing thanks to the constant use of the bread slicing machine.

To add to this feel-good medicine of laughter, you gifted me with your, as always, beautiful hand crafted 5 Pup Productions card designed around a 1940's black and white photo entitled "Elsie with Josephine and Julie." The three young women, arms linked, happily smiling into the camera, were obviously friends who enjoying one another's company. An added bonus was when you told me Elsie (on the left) was your mother. She was beautiful and looked so happy. 

The importance of girl friends sentiments you expressed inside the card were heartwarming:

 "Girl friends are the Best. They help keep us sane when our partners make us c r a z y, they provide balance when life throws us off, they are fun to be with and help keep us happy (happy underlined in scallops), when they're not around, our hearts feel the difference. Much love, Barbara Elaine."

When we said goodbye,  both of us were in agreement about how our two hours of laughter was the was the most powerful feel-good medicine we had experienced in a long while, plus the beautifully creative  heart-warming card and the delicious breakfast certainly created a birthday celebration never to be forgotten! 

Thank you.