Connections and coincidences

Me & my children, about the time I first met Anne.

A couple of years ago I discovered that a woman I’d been good friends with over forty years ago, was now living in the same city as me. I messaged Anne, and we met up, just the once, for she moved away soon after. Five years later I received a message to say my friend was back living in Auckland and suggested we meet, with partners this time. Kerry and I invited them for lunch, and a few weeks later we lunched at their place. As we were leaving Anne said to me, ‘We should meet for a coffee, ‘just the two of us, as we have so much to catch up on.’ Little did we know just how much.

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Occasion markers

Great Stupa at Kathmandu, Nepal

I love the way something you buy, whether travel mementos, or presents received or given, stand as markers in one’s life. Take the ceramic teapot I’ve decided to sketch (below), which was the first present I gave my husband not long after we’d met. It was April 1992, and I had the great fortune to travel to Nepal on a 29 day trek with three other women from New Zealand; such a fantastic experience. (Link above takes you to a post from a few years back). The day I returned to my hometown, I helped out a friend with an exhibition opening at our art gallery, and there Kerry was, also helping out. We chatted for ages before parting ways, thinking maybe we just might get to chat some more – sometime. And, surprise! surprise, by the end of the year we were chatting a lot.

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