Making the old new again

Last weekend we bought and moved (ouch) this cool cabinet, my first Craig's List purchase having gone quite smoothly.  I don't even remember why I even started looking through the website last week, but this item caught my eye and after a couple of phone calls and trips out to West Bloomfield, it's in our family room.  It's from the 1930's but just needs a little wood polish and a new door pull (hence the bits of masking tape), isn't it quaint?  Our nephew came over and glanced over casually at it and without solicitation for his 4-yr-old opinion he declared that he liked it, which pleased me :)!
 
I love when things retain their timelessness so effortlessly.  I thought about this again in a different context this week while making plans with two different groups of friends to get together over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and also when my cousin called me from California and another friend who just moved back from overseas checked in just for a quick hello.  People that are dear to me that I don't see or talk to all that often due to physical distance or just busy lives, but with whom conversation and laughter come as easily as the last time when we get together.  In theory we should treat all of our longstanding relationships as if they were a cherished shiny new penny, so that they are reminded of their worth to us!