It is Friday!  If that alone isn’t reason to celebrate, I  have three amazing friends that sent me four dusty pink roses at work today.  There is nothing to cheer you up as much as flowers- and then add roses.  I hope I am a good enough friend to them.  What a gift is friendship.

Then to top this off-it is a full moon.  There is a strong biting wind.  The moon peeks out intermittently from a fog of clouds.   It is an enchanting night.

A dear friend gave birth today to a healthy baby girl- a wonder, a joy.  Another acquaintance  breathed her last- the sadness, the loss.  What a mystery life is to experience two such contrasting emotions within the course of a day- and still that moon stays its course; still the clouds roll by.