Maggie in Newfoundland: Day 10

A day of reminiscences and of realizing that sometimes even happy memories can’t do justice to the reality of revisiting! As I left today for my reunion with high school chums, I wondered briefly if I was viewing the past with rose coloured glasses. Were those times as happy as I remembered? Were those people as wonderfully fun and refreshing as I remembered? Or, as is sometimes the case, had time blurred the sharp edges of reality? In fact, I indeed discovered why I do have such happy memories … these are wonderful, warm, genuine, fun people who literally welcomed one another with open arms. True, life has had its ups and downs for us all. The group gathered today though had stood the test of time - unchanged in so many of the ways that truly matter, sharing the little pearls of memory and experience that let us piece together a story, more complete than any of us had on our own. Many of us knew something of some of those unable to be with us so that their stories were also very much a part of the day. Driving home I was very aware of how our personal story is inseparable from the people who have helped weave the fabric of our lives.

I will apologize now to those following the blog who do not share part of this story since these pictures may not be of much interest to you. But for those of you who share these memories, enjoy the day in pictures…

Linda and Colleen