re-connecting...

with people from my past seems to be the order of the week...

a lot of people from my past are very much in the forefront of my mind of late and really i can't think of what might have prompted that...

one girlfriend, who for a time was my best friend, has been on my mind for some time and even though about 9 - 10 months i chose to leave that friendship behind, i wanted to let her know this week that she had often been in my thoughts and that i hoped she was doing well...

last thursday/friday i was thinking about another close girlfriend of times gone by (we just drifted as our lives took different directions) and came across a website of photos that her husband had taken...

so this week, on monday actually, i emailed the first girlfriend to simply say hi, to let her know she was in my thoughts and to enquire about how things were going...she advised me of the death of the second girlfriends husband late last week...

the two girlfriends were not friends in their own right but knew each other through my friendships with them...

how strange that i should a) not only be thinking about susi and dion on the very day that he passed away, but that i should email the other girlfriend who told me that he had died...

i guess i'm still reeling as to not only the sadness i feel for susi and her children at the loss of dion, i am also amazed by the serendipity of having got in touch when i did...

so i have been thinking since monday a lot about dion and what he meant to me - i saw him pretty much every weekend for a period of 2 - 3 years when susi and i were spending a lot of time together - we always got on well - he was a lovely bloke - creative, talented, funny, kind and a fabulous dad...

one particular time i remember how kind he was to me and how much i appreciated what he did for me - see an ex boyfriend of mine came up from canberra, we had a big falling out and he left me a cruel and hurtful note and the situation was so frightening that i was too afraid to return to my own home alone...dion drove half way across town with me very late one night to make sure that i was safe...

so to dion: i hope you are at peace, i'm sorry you didn't get to see your lovely children grow up and i hope that you left this world with no regrets

to susi: my heart goes out to you and the children (as i said to you on the phone) and i hope that we get to re-connect some time soon

i really do believe that everything happen for a reason...