Telephones and aching cheeks

Ø      I believe that if I should die and you were to walk near my grave from the very depths of the earth, I would hear your footsteps (Benito Perez Galdos)

After spending 3 hours on the phone last night, today I find myself happy.  Truly happy from the tips of my toes to the top of my head happy.  If we're lucky there are people in all our lives that make us feel that way.  That can take a hard situation and turn it around until your cheeks hurt from smiling and your guts hurt from laughing.  I am lucky to have a few of those people in my life.  I haven't talked on the phone for 3 hours in probably 12 years... I hate the phone!  But when you have a friend that doesn't have a computer or facebook you need to apply that classic touch.  I felt like a teenage... curled up on my couch giggling and flirting until we were both yawning and ready for bed...  It felt so good to reconnect with someone in that personal way that technology doesn't allow for.  To hear him smile over a telephone wire is the next best thing to being there with him.  So though I am VERY anti-telephone... I'm thankful for it today.