Joy-filled Evening!

Benedicamus Domino!

It has been a long time since I have taken to this little corner of the web, a long time since I have felt I had anything worth writing here. This, of course, was not due to the lack of anything worth writing about, but rather due to my own closed-off nature during the past few months. I suppose we all revert to type every now and again, and my type seems to be rather a solitary hermit, a person who can cause herself to feel alone even among crowds and who tells herself and others if they'll listen that she really likes it that way.

This of course is utter nonsense! However, I do persist in this pattern and it really needs to stop.

Ah well... What was it that I came here to write this evening, you ask? Well, Michael and I just spent a lovely evening with some friends of mine. Actually it was more like an afternoon and an evening. We had some great conversation, some fabulous food at a Czek restaurant, and just generally had a very lovely time.

The best of it was that I was able to introduce him to a friend who has been a comrade-in-arms of mine for many years. She and I are in some ways as different as night and day, but in others we seem to be linked at the brain-stem, and this is despite about a ten-year difference in our ages. I suppose what made me so happy was her assessment that I seemed to be like a different person since the last time we truly got together. I don't entirely know what that means, but I suspect that she was able to see Mike and I together and it really came home to her that we were comfortable with each other and cared about each other and such. It doesn't hurt that he is just a very special person. Anyone who meets him can see that and would remark upon it.

All I can say is that this was just a lovely evening! It made things more--well--real I guess. I can't really explain it well, but having Mike meet this sister-in-the-spirit of mine just brought things home to me that we're in this for keeps, for real! I'm just so happy!!!

Deo Gratias!