When you’re a kid, your friends are all-purpose. Like flour. You can put them into lots of situations and they do great. When you’re a kid, your world is divided into best friends and everybody else. One of the insights gained as one ages is that most of your friends aren’t all-purpose. There’s the one [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Friendship’
27 Sep
Getting Closer to Fine
Science has supposedly told us that scent is the most powerful memory trigger humans have. There are times, indeed, that I’ve caught a whiff of my grandmother’s apartment – fresh Maine air tinged with pine, a little bit of Comet cleaner, and her favorite Jean Nate body splash – despite the fact that her apartment [...]
18 Mar
Old Friends…New Meanings
It is in our nature to look for and sometimes find patterns. It’s humanity’s way of not going completely buggy when we consider the vastness of God, the Universe, and Everything. It is perhaps in my nature to also make meaning from those patterns as my way of finding meaning for myself as a motif [...]
27 Aug
In My Tribe – Isolation vs. Belonging
Something that has been on my mind lately is feelings of isolation vs. feelings of belonging. I suspect this stems directly from my recent activities on a certain social networking site and the sudden interest in…dramatic pause…Friends. To Friend or not to Friend, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the [...]
6 Aug
Misplaced Persons
There’s losing people to horrid things like death, and events from which they cannot return. And there are friendships that fall apart or are hacked up into tiny bits with a sharp machete. There are people with whom you become geographically incompatible. What about the people you misplace? Like Julie Christensen. I misplaced her, I [...]
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