Today I am Loving {364}

When it's a day where you need a friend, and you're just settling in to start the working and the friend walks in, and she sees the book sitting there and says "oh, that's our friend, that's on my coffee table too!", and you proceed to give her the other book sitting there that it just seems she should read, and she tells you about another, by the same woman, sitting in her office just now, and you decide to walk there together, so that you can trade, and on her desk is the calendar that says "African art at the Palmer today" so you walk together over, you listen to the ambassador who brought them there, you look at the intricate beauty carvings, and then you wander through the splendor of the glass there on display, and she says "Here are two things that made me think of you" and both of you have a moment where you realize this University life is charmed, yes, blessed, and then you leave her and walk back to your cottage, cut the lilacs, bring some to your Director sitting now at his desk but very soon to leave you, which chokes you up every time you think of it, and you settle back down then, 

to get to the less important "work."