the garbs...

the garbs had great timing last night.
it's a story far too long for here but suffice to say, i, by chance, met one of the new shop teachers at van tech high school yesterday. his name is rory. that in itself isn't a big deal. cool job but that i met him is no biggie. except that a very close friend of mine, marty basso, was the shop teacher there for many years until he died of cancer approx. two and a half years ago. as we talked about marty and how great he was as a friend and a teacher, i started to feel sad and moved our talk to other subjects and then left.
i was trying to decide what to do next. go home. go get some dinner. drive around. then my phone rang.
"where are you?"
it was the garbs.
i told him i was over near naniamo and hastings.
"let's get some tacos"
it was perfect. i didn't really want to go home and seeing the garbs would be the perfect tonic. another great friend.
so i went and got him and in the end we went to roma for pizza and then, though we both said out loud we didn't actually need it, ice cream.
after i dropped him off i came home and felt a lot better.

thanks garbs.

g xo

***i should also say this. i have now, some friends that are in many ways as close to me now as i ever was with marty, and they know who they are and, hopefully, how much they mean to me. marty was just one of the first. hopefully i don't need to miss them like i miss him now for a long time.