She was swimming in memories of the previous year when their dear friend had undergone back surgery while they were all “snowbirds” in Florida. The surgery on her friend’s back was successful but it proved to be too much for her friend’s ailing heart and her friend had passed not long after returning to Michigan.
“It has popped into my mind to look and see what day it was I went to the hospital,” she shared with their mutual friend. “I have not yet taken time to, but I know I have the voice memo I had recorded.”
She looked on her phone. It had been exactly one year ago — March 5!
(Her friend passed four months later on July 5.)
John Lennon said, “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be”.