Archive for January 2nd, 2010

Friends: they are more precious than rubies, shimmer more than pearls of light on the ocean, and glitter as bright as the essence of heaven.  Tonight, I spent the evening with a friend I worked with several decades ago, and it was as if we’d never been apart.  It was so heart warming to learn how his career has changed and transformed.  It met his lovely wife, and shared time with other people I with whom I used to work.

After dinner, I spent the rest of the evening with my best friend.  She’s like my sister, and I’ve known her for 20 years.  On the way home I realized how incredibly priceless our friends are.  There is no value greater than the love I have for my friends. I am fiercely loyal.  I am a good friend, as I believe in nurturing and caring for my friends as I would my own family. I am so blessed to have a core group of really close friends.

Our friends get us through life-we nurture one another’s spiritual growth. We guide one another on our mutual journeys.  The love I have for my friends is poetic, and deep.  My friends are my family by association.  I am also grateful that here in Cincinnati, I have a community that I care about, one in which I am a steward.  I feel deeply rooted in my sense of place and belonging.

As I consider my career transition, I am willing to relocate.  In fact, I hope to move to a warmer climate.  Honestly, I just don’t know how many more Ohio winters I can take.  It’s biting cold tonight, the kind of cold that freezes one to the very core.  I love warmth, cozy places where I can nestle, and nest.

Where ever I land professionally, I will do my best to rebuild the same degree of community that I have here in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Community is in the heart.  We build it and take it with us where ever we go.  No one is a stranger to me for long.  I make friends easily because I am an extrovert.  Yet, the life-long friends I have made in my sweet home town, will never be replaced as their value is beyond measure or compare.  I felt compelled to write a post about friendship because, I have made so many friends on twitter, facebook and linkedin.   I also feel a sense of place and community with my professional friends and colleagues.  That’s the beauty of social media.  I hope that in 2010, I put the “social” into social media, and build as many genuine, meaningful, and mutually beneficial as possible.  May your year be blessed with friendship, and may you carry the love and spirit of friendship in your heart.  Take it with you wherever you go.

Your twitter pal,

@HRMargo