Spending Time with Friends and Family

Time Well Spent – Spending Time with Friends & Family is a Wise Investment

Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did“?

– Zig Ziglar

I was in Ontario and Quebec recently for 10 days. I had a fantastic trip and visited plenty o’ peeps!

The original reason for my trip was to attend a friend’s wedding reception in Uxbridge, ON. So, me being me, I decided to make a holiday out of it 🙂 and visit as many people as I possibly could, in as many different places, in the shortest amount of time.

Okay, so it wasn’t exactly a holiday per se in the relaxing sense – but rather a visiting marathon with multiple modes of public transportation thrown in for a) added challenge and b) down-time. And let me tell you, by the end of my journey, I was falling asleep before the bus or train even left the station!

But all that visiting was well worth it. There’s nothing quite like spending time with people (and their pets) in their natural habitat to really get to know them – and/or see how they’re doing.

Plus I had an awful lot of fun and saw some amazing sights!

Here are a few more photos from my trip:

Back home again, I received news that a friend’s father had passed away. He was an absolutely lovely man but had been ill for a long time. Thankfully, I’d had a couple of great visits with him over the past few years on my trips back to Calgary.

I wish the people (and pets) we love could live forever – but we all know it doesn’t work that way. But the older I get, the more I realize just how important it is to make time to see the important people in our lives…especially the older folks 🙂

I must say, however, that it’s awfully nice to be back home again and into my writing routine…for a little while, anyway.

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Maryanne Pope is the author of A Widow’s Awakening, the playwright of Saviour and the screenwriter of God’s Country. Maryanne is the CEO of Pink Gazelle Productions and the Chair of the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund. If you would like to receive her weekly blog, please sign up here.