~ Aeschylus
I recently
traveled out-of-town for a memorial service.
A couple of weeks earlier, one of my dearest friends asked me when I
would be in her neck of the woods and I had mentioned this trip, even though
the service was not in my friend's city, but rather in another city about an
hour away. My friend invited me to stay with
her and said that she would drive me to the other city. What awaited me was a weekend filled with
kindnesses, too numerous to mention, but each one touched my heart and made me
feel very taken care of and loved.
There was
lots of driving and feeding me: On
Friday evening, my friend picked me up at the airport, and she and her husband
took me out to dinner. The following
morning, she made me a delicious breakfast before driving me more than an hour
to where I had to go. When I returned
from the memorial service, she made a lovely dinner for me. And then she drove me to the airport on
Sunday morning -- after another delicious breakfast, which she made extra
hearty as she imagined I would not eat lunch.
And then there were so many other things... When she saw that I had brought a trench
coat, she said that I could not possibly wear that to the service because I
would be cold, so she lent me one of her winter coats. When she thought that I had been cold the
first night, she put a heater in my room the second night. My friend was so incredibly thoughtful -- I think it would be
hard to find a kinder host.
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