once upon a time, long, long LONG (okay, so no that long) ago, a darling little girl was born. sadly, this baby was left in the hospital for a little while until 2 people decided to be her parents. these 2 people, fortunately for me, lived in a little town called abbotsford. years and years went by. the darling little baby grew up into a beautiful girl and found a job working at the same bookstore as...me! this girl's name was leah and she and i got along alright, but it wasn't until we had been working together for some time that we became great friends. i had just been through a Very Traumatic Breakup and was still quite shell-shocked, when leah called and told me that she was going to london drugs to pick some stuff up and would i like to go along with her. that was the start of it all, a trip to london drugs. leah came in right at the time i needed her the most and has had impeccable timing with such things ever since.
a trip to london drugs is never just a trip to london drugs with leah. every trip with leah involves some sort of adventure whether you want it or not. trips to vancouver for swing dancing with the fairy man, or turtleneck guy at babalou or salsa at the harbour inn yacht club, attempting to find the english men's rugby team downstairs, but discovering octavian instead, warm wine walks on a cold pier at white rock, fancy toothpick embarrassments at the border crossing, the fine art of burning pumpkin seeds just so hot firemen can show up at our doorstep (with sirens on, i might add) drops of jupiter, lazy cigarette drives, picking feathers off of fried chicken wings, not tolerating dirty windowsills at random cheap motels, requesting "happy feet" every chance we got, dancing with each other when no one else would, picking up right where we left off, no matter how long or how many continents away we had been: the makings of a beautiful friendship.
it's been over a year since leah and i have spent time together, but leah's adventures have by no means ended. she got married, lived in england, then italy and now resides in thailand where she has befriended prostitutes and been a mother to orphans. leah has one of the most giving hearts i know. she will give as much of herself as is necessary to see someone else become happy. leah dear, i love you completely and miss you incredibly. even though this is 3 days late, i hope your birthday was a happy, lovely, wonderful day...just like you.
5 comments:
Your Leah sounds amazing! You are so lucky and deserving of a friend like that. Will you have time to come and meet Michael when you are here? We'd like to see you if time allows.
It seems that God knows just the right moment to toss someone in our fishbowl. Glad you had someone to swim around with you when everything else might have seemed sinking. Good friendships make the world such a nice place.
While your page loaded though all I could think was AAAHHHH you cut your hair!! (not that it looked bad!)
~Shannon
What a lovely tribute to Leah - and to your friendship. Aimee
Yes, that's very honouring to Leah!! So glad you had a friend like that right after your VTB!!! I liked the capital letters. :)
God continue to enrich your friendship!
You look great in short hair!
HEIDI! What have you done?! You've made me cry; and here at the internet cafe in front of about a dozen people. Oh Heidi. Everything you said in those paragraphs was a little drop of honey on my bowl of ice cream. Thank you so much for what you said, I certianly don't deserve such honour. Thank you so very much my dear friend. I love and miss you like crazy, but am not worried because I know we'll just pick up where we left off again. (we've been forced to get good at that).
Thanks again sweetie.
PS. I look like crap in the picture.
PPS. When I die, would you write my Eulogy? tee hee hee. (ok, no, I'm serious...)
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