Friends

Count yourself blessed if you have friends who inspire you to...

feed seed and Cheerios to the birds in your backyard...
send Valentines and giggle while you mail them...
sing while driving your car with the windows down...
plant jack o' lanterns in your garden...
hang your clothes outside on clotheslines...
use (and twirl) an old-fashioned fabric umbrella with a wooden crook handle...
wear gingham 1950's aprons...
watch fireflies from retro metal lawn chairs on the back porch...
spring clean your house with opened windows and music playing...
keep scrapbooks and diaries...
slide down stair banisters while everyone is looking...
play your old record albums real loud when no one else is home...
dance in your living room late at night in low light...
save old bread in a freezer then take it to the park and toss it to seagulls in the sky...
spread your table with craft projects on a Saturday afternoon...
laugh when nothing is funny at all...

I have friends who inspire me to do those things. Many whose faces I have seen only in pictures...or only in my imagination...maybe even you are one of the Kodak-faced, inspiring ones.
If so, may I inspire you in these ways, too.