At a meeting yesterday I wasn't supposed to be at, I bumped into my former colleague and much loved friend who also was standing in for someone else. We sat next to each other and I reveled in her warm company, something I used to experience daily. We last met up 4 years ago but Facebook means we are still in regular contact - yay for social media B-). I'm very lucky to have many friends who I don't see for months on end but are still right there, unseen but far from unknown.
I've been having my milk delivered for almost a year now. Notwithstanding regular email correspondence with my milkman, and evidence of his visits in the form of both bottles and bills, I've not yet actually seen him. The dog has, and barks each time, so I quickly rescheduled from daily pintas to multiple less frequent deliveries, as I don't enjoy being woken in the early hours.
There's something a little odd about having such regular yet invisible contact, tho I guess it's not different than other services I take advantage of without ever seeing the provider. I was trying to think of examples but I do try and wave at my binmen and say hi to postie and offer lollies to the electricity meter reader. But of course there are thousands of people who each day make my life better without me ever having met them, and certainly not thanked them. So the folk who keep my internet alive, my water running, who grew the grapes and dried them and added them to my granola. It's why I buy fair trade stuff wherever I can cos how greedy is it of me otherwise if I don't even bother that those tea pickers are earning peanuts or the peanut growers can't afford tea?
There's so much to be grateful for, seen and unseen :)
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