Reconnecting....after 30+ years...

Facebook..facebook..FACEBOOK.. the reconnecting of lives...

After many many years, a dear old friend from the 60's and I made a reconnection. With that came many more connections, all old friends from High School and a small town in New York called Pleasantville ! Pleasant it was always, but in memory, Pleasant to grow up in, safe , no locked doors, everyone knew everyone, everyone was , well, pleasant!..Thanks for the memories..Rome Theater...5 and 10 cent stores, soda's at the Drug Store...no school buses , walking everywhere..and enjoying it..skating on Opperman's Pond....the Pleasantville Pool...oh how sweet it was! How varied are we now..metalsmith, biker, historian, genealogist, doctors, nurses, CEO's, Realtors, weigh masters, librarians, to name a few..living all over the world...even a few back in Pleasantville still..some with children, grandchildren...single, married , divorced, gay and straight, we all have one common bond..that great little town, where everyone was once safe...an hour away from NYC..untouched then...a wonderful place to get roots..and send us on our way!

Facebook thanks..for the memories....<3

Well here goes...I always thought I'd be spending my retirement on the beach, with an oceanfront house, in beautiful Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. These thoughts included my sister Judy by my side, my best friend, my advisor, my beautiful sister. Life had different plans for me. No longer two gay divorcees, enjoying a beach retirement.Just me , myself and I and a small little toy poodle named Monet. She is my companion, my friend, and she's old like me. My Judy is an angel now, when the stars shine she twinkels down and lets me know she is up there enjoying what heaven has to offer! So now my beach is a small little river beach, only a short distance away from the one I had planned to be on, same salt water, same beautiful sunrises and breathtakingly wonderful sunsets, same sky, same stars lighting up the nights... I have learned that Life is not always planned out for us...Karma...maybe...but for now I think I must accept what is..and not think of what could have been. So I am starting over..in a different place...Life is not what I had planned, it is what it is. Life is good.. The sun came up this morning, and cool breezes surround me....starting over..it's a good thing.