old friends, new friends, where-have-you-been friends

so I just returned from D.C. our 20th page reunion. it was truly amazing to reconnect with those friends that i spent a year with paging in the nation's capitol. the amazing thing was that though some i have seen within that 20 years, there were many that i had not seen--and it was like a day had not passed. jokes, laughs, love, friendship--FUN. i felt 16 years old for 3 days. i acted 16 for 3 days. some of my friends are ivy league graduates, have very important government and state jobs. others are moms, dads and just good people. i thank God for such an opportunity to reconnect, revisit, reexperience and RELOVE. my experiences in my life define who i am as a person. from my pageship, to interning, to living in wyoming, to los angeles, to nashville--i am free, free to be who God created me to be...with hope, with friends and with love.