“However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?” ~ Buddha
I’d like you to meet my oldest friend in the world. Alisa Ellen Marshall Burnett and I became best friends in the first grade, or we may have known one another before that because I really don’t remember meeting her. She has just always been there. After high school our lives drifted apart, but every once in a while we run into one another. Her mother was in town for a medical procedure. While she was recuperating, Alisa and I snuck out for a bite of dinner. Two hours later, we were still yapping our heads off. My growing up would have been empty without Alisa. We were so opposite, and yet, oddly, not (as evidenced below). She remembers the very best and the very worst of me from all those years ago, and yet she remains my friend all these years later. Money can’t buy that kind of friendship. I wish everyone had an Alisa to grow up with. She made all the difference in my life. We will be friends until we die. I don’t know what more one could ask for.
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