Who is that friend you are always wishing you had time to call? Or stay caught up with? Or know the nooks and crannies of? In this age of mobile communication, this idea may not seem so novel. But I am a girl who likes to give you her attention when she's talking with you. I'm a multi-tasker of the first order; this idea is a slow-down from doing everything at once.
It began like this: Lisa would call me when she had a day off and I would be knee deep in some project that had to get done: can't talk now. I would call Lisa back and it would turn out to be one of her work days. Days go by, weeks even. I have known Lisa since I was five. We have lived in different cities off and on, but both settled in the metro area to raise our families. We don't want to waste our history, we make the conscious choice to stay in touch. (Not to mention that we are on the same page when it comes to the things that really matter.)
Today is the first Tuesday of the school year -- and hooray, because that means the second year of Lunch with Lisa starts today. We have a phone lunch every Tuesday of the school year. The phone rings at 11:15, she's in her kitchen, I'm in mine: 45 minutes of friendship. They are 45 really fast minutes.
I value our talks so much that I schedule meetings around our lunch dates (although we do occasionally have to schedule our lunch dates around our meetings). Sometimes I clean the kitchen sink instead of actually eating lunch. But mostly I sit and talk, and listen. It's lovely.
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