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My great friend Val (the lovely brunette in this photo) sent me this note and I decided to make it a Guest Post. Enjoy!
You know that I am so web-challenged that it took me several years to remember that you had a site. I had NO idea it would be this cool - and continuously. [Thanks! I'll try not to let it go to my head...]
Funny that I’ve known you for about fifteen years, yet I’ve learned things about you, on this site, that we’ve never gotten around to talking about. Partly because, during those magic times we can be together, there’s more catching up to do than we have time for. I read your newest “movie moment” (very nice!) and I have shared, in a past comment, one of my “magic moments” (dancing at Faces, in 2000).
Here is another one: The second trip out, myself and K, now “officially” together. We ambled through the most perfect day - a late breakfast with perfect friends and good, hot coffee. Fruit fresh off the vine, right outside your door. A lovely drive through the hills and the valley, views to which my camera could not do justice, yet still a perfect backdrop for the group picture that I admire every day, here at my desk. A true Kodak memory. As though the weather was made to order. We tasted our way across Napa Valley - wines and cheeses. Finally, we were treated to a shopping excursion, very late at night, in the most wonderful grocery/deli/liquor store (where were we?). [I believe we went to a gourmet shop on 4th Street in Berkeley.]
In a cloud of fuzzy wine-happiness and resulting hunger, K and I filled our cart with every delectable looking cheese, every cute jar of pickled something, and, of course, more good wine. Back at the house, our party struggled to stay awake while we opened, chopped, peeled, and heated things sweet, dilled, creamy, and sour (K is really into taste contrasts). [Truly, one of the best 'non-meals' I've ever had in my life... Hot french bread and brie, strawberries, kiwi, and all those wonderful cheeses... Great... now I'm hungry.]
Finally, we served up our little work of art, poured wine and we all toasted. Each one had something very deep and touching to say. In the candlelight, with a perfect selection of music in the background, we fed all our senses - lights, sound, tastes - and emotions. In that moment, there could not have been a more perfect place. We laughed until we cried. We told, and listened to, stories that cheer me to this day.
The story of Paul’s temporary blindness, and the reason for it, remains one of my favorites. [That story is coming soon. Thanks for the reminder...]
Who could ask for better friends and why are they so kind to me - as though my happiness was their only concern?
Truly a gift!
