When lizards are cold they like to sun themselves on the rocks, soak in the warm rays of the morning. I find myself also hibernating, coming out only to shop for groceries, hair color or some odd essential. I used to enjoy the occational shopping trips, when you can spare the few bucks. It is so difficult to spend now, money or time, so I hibernate.
So I find that I resort to thinking like those bears in caves, beavers in the dams they build and tightly huddle with what I do have and keep to myself. But, now it's but a few days before summer...and I find myself in the same thought as if I were hibernating. It's okay, if money is tight, or you want to save for that rainy day. To make it a every day lifestyle, that's not healthy. People need people and sharing the daily tough times and good times is what makes us friends.
I am reminded of my parents and my father most. I never met his friends, they were all stories and coworkers. None ever came to our house for a nice chat or shared a meal together. Dad didn't dine out or have time with the boy's, go fishing, hunting, meet at a bowling alley...never. Why?
I trust my family remembers our friends and visitors, we had pot-lucks, birthday parties, celebrations of life, passings of time remembered with talks, gatherings around food, stars, sunsets, daybreaks. Life is worth celebrating and nothing says it more than with the company of friends.
