A Simple Gold Button

I chose from the button jar quickly without much thought to it and pulled out a silly little gold button.  It would have been on a paisley dress or a nautical shirt I think It is small and bright and I slid it into my corduroys.  I headed down for a day with a to do list longer than my arm but it was starting with joy personified.  I was meeting a friend that I rarely see and would get to have a warm hug from her, a meal together and, I knew, laughter over coffee. What is better than a friend, bacon and a button?
We shared some old history catch up, some NOW conversation, and some "what is next?" envisioning.
As always, my golden "next" seems to clarify in her presence and I thought about that as we parted and I realized I had not shown her my today's button.
My life is in a kaleidoscope of changing patterns as my seasonal job comes to an end just as the balance in my checkbook drops to a new low. The fax machine  has become my constant companion as I send form after form to potential new employers. I think how much I wish that gold button was a pound of gold not a trinket.
I wanted to help a friend today and offered to pick up a roll of burgundy table cloth  for a church dinner.  I did not take into account that it is the weekend before Halloween and every store would be filled with ghosts and goblins and W I T C H E S!!!! in line and in the parking lots!!! YIKES.  Three "wasted" hours later though, success and back across the river button and I traveled.
By days end I had shopped, chopped, faxed, printed, swept, baked, snipped, mopped and laundered and taken a drug screening test!.On my way toward home I noticed  that another friend was still at a task with a morning deadline and stopped in.  She was cold and tired.  I decided the golden thread of friendship was greater than the tug to sleep and went home to make hot chocolate and deliver it with whipped cream and home made bread and butter sandwiches.
Friendship is golden -warm hugs, gathering over coffee and bacon, lending a helping hand, delivering treats at midnight.
I guess this button isn't so silly after all.