Today is National Women’s Friendship Day. This is a wonderful time to remember and honor those women who have had such an important place in our lives.
My first and best friend was my Mom Barbara Stevenson Walters. I was so bonded to her that I did not see us as separate individuals till I was age 12! This bond lasted a lifetime. And although we often disagreed, the LOVE was always stronger than anything else! We became even closer after Dad died, and I gradually became her long-distance caregiver. I was lost without her after she died, and that still exists today. But I believe I will be with her again!
I have also been blessed by having the most incredible grandmothers, aunts, and cousins! I have always carried each and all in a special place in my heart, of course being closer to some than others. I still try to see as many as possible whenever I go home to Kansas.
In recent years, I have reconnected with several women classmates via Facebook and other social media. This has been healing for me since my self-esteem was so low in high school.
Throughout the years, I have maintained lifelong friendships with women in my life from my teens till now! Some of these women are featured in pictures with me here. I consider myself truly blessed by these relationships which have sustained me with support, humor, and so much more through life’s changes.
Let me close with this saying:
“A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
Get in contact with your women friends and family in some way! I am going to! And THANK YOU to all the women in my life from the past and now!
BFF’s Janet & I since 1978
BFF’s Angela, me, & Mary Ellen
Cathy & I
My Best Friend, Mom.
Two sisters and BFFs
BFF Janie
Blessings,
Carolyn
