Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I was telling my friend on the telephone that I had a spontaneous weekend!  On Saturday I texted a friend to walk, and we ended up deciding to celebrate St. Patrick's Day by having dinner together.  She made corned beef and cabbage, boiled potatoes and rye bread, I brought wine and key lime pastries from a bakery.  It was the first time either of us had done anything to celebrate the holiday.  We didn't quite go to the extent of the green beer, but almost.  I've accidentally seen parades, but never deliberately celebrated.  She's Jewish, her partner is Polish, and my husband has no Irish blood and me just a bit, so there has been no big push.  Anyway, we had fun, and the next day my husband and I decided late morning to go to a garden an hour away, and that turned out delightfully as well.  Celebrating is always a good idea.  And I feel like I shored up good feeling, because today I learned my dear friend's son is quite dangerously ill, and she is several states away sitting in the hospital  hoping and praying.  Enjoy the daffodils, because change happens so swiftly and inexorably.