One of the nicest things you can have

I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine - Quote from Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Act I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919).

This week, almost everyday of the week I had been meeting up with old friends.

Lunch with my old boss, his wife and several previous colleagues. Even though I had been transferred out of the Department in 1994 and since retired, we have kept in touch and meet occassionally.
Meeting up with several of my classmates. Even though we had left high school 47 years ago we had remained bosom frineds.

Enjoying a buffet lunch with neighbours in my previous housing area. Even though I had moved away from the neighbourhood 2 years ago, they have remained my close friends.


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels