Unexpected Friends

Today I had breakfast with a dear friend.  Someone I only just met 2 years ago, and yet, she is someone who I felt an instant connection with, and I know that we will be fast friends forever.  I can see us growing into old ladies together, laughing, singing and talking about lifes complexities together, she is a kindred spirit.

I have another friend like this woman, whom I met over 4 years ago.  I feel the same way about her. 
Both of these women, I met through music, and I have my daughter Danielle to thank for the meeting of these friends of mine.

About 4 years ago, my daughter decided I should perform again, I used to sing in High School, and as I got older I sang at Weddings and Funerals, but Danielle thought I should get back on a stage.  She signed me up for a group called Basically Broadway.  It was a group of men and women who performed solos, and group Broadway numbers, I loved it immediately.  It was there that I met my friend Judi.  She is an actor, teacher and mother of three wonderful sons, and her husband and my husband Donnie hit it off at their first meeting, the four of us became fast friends, and Judi is another kindred spirit to me.  I feel as if we have known each other our whole lives, and I know she and I will grow old in friendship.

A year or two after I started Basically Broadway, I built up the courage to audition for a Summer Musical with the Reagle Players of Waltham. I was cast in the ensemble of The Music Man, and that is where I met Meryl.  Meryl, is an amazingly talented singer and performer, who performs a one woman show and does one helluva Liza Minelli!  She also is a Big Apple Circus clown who performs for the children at Boston Chilrens Hospital.

Both of these women, have never met, and yet both of them are like sisters of the heart to me.  It's funny how in life you can be just going along, and then one day unexpectedly, you meet people who will be a part of your life forever.  Unexpected Friends are now my forever friends, and I am grateful for them.

** I am also grateful to my wonderful daughter and friend Danielle, who opened these doors in my life, so that these two women could walk into my life.