This week is the last one of my first year at the current job. Last week, Andrea and the girls were here with me for the first time in 5 months. So, I didn’t get much reading done on the internet last week. Tonight I planned on catching up only to find that my internet connection was down until about 9 o’clock. I do want to link to a post of Carrie’s from last week. 20 years ago, Loius L’Amour was undoubtedly my favourite author. Like Carrie, I’ve read all of his writing that I was able to get my hands on. In this post, she has chosen excellent excerpts from his writing.

Andrea warned me earlier about a post she had written today, without telling me what she had wrote. While I was waiting for the internet connection, I decided to watch a DVD. The one in the player was Finding Forrester. I was nearly through watching it when I noticed that my email had fetched. After reading her post via the RSS feed, I resumed the movie and skipped ahead to the reading by ‘William Forrester’ which starts like this:

Losing family obliges us to find our family, not always the family that is our blood; but,the family that can become our blood. And, should we have the wisdom to open our door to this new family, we will find that the wishes we once had…

At the end of the reading, he looks at his young audience and says,

Most of you are too young to know what your wishes will be. But, when I read these words, words of hopes, dreams, I realized that the one wish that was granted to me, so late in life, was the gift of friendship.

Is there anything I can add to that?