#1336: Wednesday, December 24 - Long-term friendship

Post 1336, Day 358 of 2014
- 1,454 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

As you read this, I'm on vacation in Brattleboro, Vermont, thanks to my four-day holiday weekend. Thank you, Jesus!

I'm visiting friends and their families I have known since I was seven years old. I have two such in Vermont. The ones I'm staying with will also be visited by a third friend and his family - I have known him since I was eleven.

I have found, in my travels and various locales, that keeping friends for that long is rare. I have dozens such. In fact, my very first friend was a boy I literally bumped baby carriages with when we were toddlers, and I can call him on the phone right now.

These aren't magic friendships. And not everyone I've ever met is a friend, and of course, over the years, some have fallen away. But at every stage of my life, I have friends to testify to my presence in their lives, in their scenes, however fleeting or durable.

All I have ever done to maintain such relationships is be willing and available. That's it.

The luckiest guy I know (me) is also the possessor of another rare friendship factor: I love my relatives, but I also like them and think we'd be friends without the kinship. They have my love unconditionally, and have earned my loyal friendship as well.

What wealth is delivered to the willing!

That's all for now. Back on Monday.

Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:                   207.0 lbs

Previous Weight:                  206.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                + 0.2 lbs

Diet Comment

For all purposes, no change. Today is a traveling day, so I'll be nutriting myself almost entirely on Quest bars (I have timed running out of most of my groceries perfectly).

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch
Tuna salad on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread.

Snack
Quest bars.

Dinner
In Brattleboro, Vermont: Cheese and crackers, pita and hummus, vegetables and blue cheese dip, various pastries and chocolate.

Liquid Intake   Coffee:  36 oz.   Water: 108+ oz.  A few shots of Jameson's 18yo Reserve.

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