Neighbors

Last week two of our new Arlington neighbors came by to say Hi and brought us a pineapple, said to be a token of welcome. We chatted at the door, cuz we had a t.v. installer here working on tweaking the installation and also because the living room was stacked with boxes. Maybe soon we will be able to ask folks to come in to sit.

Their visit got me thinking about our memorable neighbors through out the years.

We had some memorable neighbors in Brownwood. Across the street was a lovely lady named Mary Kah, who had retired on three different occasions from working in the financial office of the hospital. She was well known for cutting the usual red tape involved in preparing hospital bills and if a person ever had trouble with a bill, they were encouraged to “Call Mary”. Her last retirement was when she was over 80 yrs old. She died last year a few days before Easter. Next door were Keith and Julie who watched out for us as we did for them. They were "chat over the fence" and "we'll be gone this weekend, please watch the house" type of neighbors. I will miss their friendship. Our real estate agent was also a neighbor. Although we didn’t know her well before selling the house, we talked on Christmas and whenever we saw each other outside.

Years before that, we had a family of neighbors in Clint whose children were very good friends with NLP. The girls were close enough to walk from house to house and to spend lots of time together.

Going back even farther, the neighbors we had next door to our very first house on Callison Rd,( in El Paso in the late 60’s and early 70's) were our first day care.

Neighbors are people who can be depended on. Neighbors are people who share a piece of land and try to live in harmony.

As we were moving in a couple of weeks ago, we had the opportunity to meet several of our new neighbors. I have met Lisa, Bill, Shirley, Cheryl and Brooklyn who stopped her car in the middle of the road to talk to us and welcome us to the neighborhood. I'm looking forward to a bevy of new relationships with our new friends in this new neighborhood.
New beginnings are hopeful.