Nose itches, ears ringing, all about people

Many people know I am a superstitious person.  So the old saying, “Your nose itches when someone is thinking of you and your ears ring when someone is talking about you,” is one I’ve believed for years.

Therefore, I’m wondering if people’s noses have been itching.

Driving home from the Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament Rod Stewart’s song, “You’re in my Heart,” played on Sirius’s The Blend channel.   Any time I hear Rod Stewart I think of Lisa, who was one of my dearest friends that sadly I haven’t spoken to in so long I can’t remember when we last talked.

I miss her.  Attributes of Lisa’s that I always admired were that she was smart, honest, loyal, funny, hard working, goal oriented, and real.  We had the type of friendship where we could go a time without talking, pick up the phone and talk for hours.

As I continued to drive I thought about more people whom I made so many memories with: Smiley, Drake, Tricia, Vern, Jen, Shawn, Cade Twins, Corky, Rhonda, Adonia, and Lana.

Growing up my friends were my family.  I learned so much from all of these people:

1.     Laughing so hard (sometimes someone might have even wet her pants in the front seat of my car, the USS Layson) that no one else will ever get the joke

2.     Protect one another (whether the heartbreak of a parents’ divorce to the fear of what will happen by breaking up with a boyfriend)

3.     Gaining an education about birds and the bees (first one while sitting on some hay bales)

4.     Gaining a new perspective (whether it came from running all the way back to Peru or long talks during play practice or Swing Choir)

5.     How to welcome others into a home (sleepovers on school nights)

6.     Being boy crazy (Not Shawn, of course, but definitely the rest of us)

7.     Sharing space as well as wardrobes (Locker buddies!)

8.     Listening and just being together while cruising

9.     Becoming the type of person I want to be

The list is actually much longer than I could ever include in a blog.   

An area of education that some tend to forget about is the Life Education.  Throughout relationships I’ve had, have, will have, I continue to learn.  Another way I choose to be a lifelong learner.

Thank you for being such great teachers! Love and miss you all!  

Wonder what happens when you write about a person?  Does the hand itch?