Layered cornbread salad
Tonight as I was making this layered cornbread salad for a birthday luncheon tomorrow at work, I was reminded of how much our lives are multi-layered as well.....
I have some very close family members, some of whom I got to spend time with at my nephew's dance recital last weekend; I also have cousins and friends in various locales throughout the states and around the world. I have friends at work and friends outside of work. I have bicycling friends and motorcycling friends; I have triathlon friends, and I have running friends, and sometimes these groups overlap, like when my family members form a group to complete an athletic event together, or when my work friends get together to support a specific cause such a Relay for Life. Sometimes my tri friends will do running events or bicycling events, and sometimes my co-worker friends double up as my motorcycling friends, too.
This past weekend, several of us did a group ride together out to the Oscar Store for lunch. One of my oldest and closest friends led the ride, and it was a gorgeous day to be out and about on the roads.
The Oscar Store then.....
and now......
Some of the group gearing up after lunch....
The ending point where we all go our separate ways.....
Getting a quick drink and relaxing in the shae before heading out to our respective homes.....
After the goup ride, I wanted to do some solo riding and thinking and hunt for some more murals in nearby places. I was fortunate to find a couple, and, you guesed it, they had layers as well.....
All of these layers...of family, of friends, of friends who became lovers and of lovers whose friendsdship ended along with the relationship. Sometimes the layers work, and sometimes we peel back one layer to find yet another, and another, and another. But the beauty of it all? Everything works just they way it was meant to do. I find comfort in that.............
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