My friend, Jane

We greet each other like an echo: Hi Jane! Hi Jane!

We’ve known each other for over 50 years. Fifty!

Through milestones we’ve stayed connected—if even miles apart.

Now separated by a lake.

I went through a pile of papers this a.m.—in an attempt to organize, but keep stopping to remember and think. Birthday cards from years past—many of them from Jane.

Here’s to fifty more!