weddings

good morning world, it is a beautiful saturday, the sun is shining brightly in my corner of the universe and i'm going to a wedding later today. the groom is the son of a longtime friend, someone i have known close to fifty years. [if you are paying attention thats almost my whole life....] it's funny to know a person for that long. he and his family were already living in the town that i first have memories of when our clan moved in, circa 1959. sometime the following spring i'm sure we met in the large rock strewn stretch of land that seperated our houses. within a few years our families had grown to six kids apiece so peace and quiet in the neighborhood was not an option. we were only neighbors for eight years before we moved, first just down the road abit and then back to the town where i was born. it's not really a far trip, twenty minutes or so but when you are twelve and without automobile it seems like a million miles. we stayed in touch, even sharing an apartment for one years in the late seventies. his future wife and my younger brothers future wife , who were best friends, soon came along and that was the end of our apartment days. i worked for him for a five year period at a package store his folks owned and my brother moved off to the wilds of maine. we don't see each other as much as we did in the days of our youth so today, his son's wedding day will be special. we'll laugh alot about things that happened years ago, things only we know and we''ll wonder where the time has gone, along with our hair. it will be a nice day, a nice way to spend a cool saturday in march....among friends. take care everybody and enjoy this time we have, love and peace, jc