The longer we spend time together, the tighter we become. We share eras together, we spend time frames together, we spend the ages together. We spend a decade together. We spend these lives together.
This is and was our time together and it will never return.
I had a good friend that I was inseparable from in the mid 1980’s. I haven’t seen him in years, but that time together was ours.
I worked with a group of people from the mid-nineties into the new millennium. We screamed at each other on the trading floor. We shared meals together. We traveled together. We started families together and we watched airplanes crash into buildings together.
I haven’t worked with that group in almost twenty years, but that era will always be something we share.
There is only one person who I stood next to in a delivery room. We did it three times and the rest is history. We also stood on an altar and told God that we loved each other.
That love is long gone, but the three lives we made are a testimony that only the two of us share.
When we were kids, most of the people that we spent time with were born within months of each other.
As we get older our friendships are with people that span the ages. I have a friend that was in college when I was playing little league. I have a friend that was born when I was in high school.
Our common bond is the age that we are spending together right now. This is our only time together.
We shared life with people that lived during both World Wars. We shared life together with people who voted for Nixon, people that drove Oldsmobiles and people that wore parachute pants and Doc Martens.
Just recently we went through a pandemic together. We just went to each others weddings. Lately we’ve been burying each other’s parents.
This is the dawn and the dusk that only we share.
This is our time together and it will soon be gone.
Time was given to us and it is being taken away from us. This is our time together, embrace it and hold it tight.
I’m a week away from my first Christmas movie and my first Christmas song. I haven’t decided on the first movie yet, but the song will be by The Pogues.
93.9FM started their Christmas playlist with Mariah Carey. I’m going with “Fairytale in New York.”
One week from today is the day of giving thanks.
Be astonished together, it’s our time
