‘I wish I could hug you but I can’t’, we cried with the distance between us, and 30 years that had connected us…I ate a couple of pieces of chocolate. ‘..do you want some chocolate?’ a pause.. ‘yes’, if my beautiful friend had said no, it would really have broken my heart! She took her piece of the chocolate bar…and nibbled it the same way as she had done in the 6th Form Common Room…there is comfort in the familiar habits when the boundaries of life are altered.

We drank our coffee, we walked the park that was the familiar family Sunday ramble with parents when we were kids, and with our own loved ones in more recent years…

‘There is no noise in nature that irratates’, I observed as we stopped to take photos of the lovely Lough Erne…

In an easy comfortableness we walked the terrain, observant of the ‘Social Distancing’, between ourselves and others…there was and now is a mutual acceptance of this new societal practice…in just a few days of hearing these words we are mindful of our behaviour and distance…

What I did feel and need today was my friend…we talked easily, we laughed together and in the distance between us was love that has been formed through moments, many moments together…

This my dear friends is what will connect us, the memory, the DNA of love and the word spoken, written or felt…these have no boundaries, no limits and no social distance they are our Soul xox