friendship
November 14, 2009
- Mark Dixon's "Two Friends"Clint came over for coffee yesterday morning.I had just returned from a brief trip back to my hometown to see some old friends. Emotionally fragile, I tried my best to engage in conversation with them and listen to their stories, though my heart wasn’t in it. I’d become too accustomed to living on an island, where my emotional sores fester in peace, ...
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November 14, 2009
- There are friends for whom you forgive everything, and keep close to you, no matter what. These are friends who drift away, or who are always late, or who tweak your sense of well-being in other ways. Sometimes I am this friend, and I am grateful for the stubborn love of those persistent and patient with me. Some friendships embrace the whole of you, and it's lovely when that is so.I've ...
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October 29, 2009
- October 29, 2009 The Book on the Shelf I love to read; my bookshelves are crammed tight. However, there is one book that I avoided even glancing at, even though I had several copies. My first copy was given to me by a nice neighbor lady when I was very young. Another copy was given to me when I was baptized and another when I married. I even received a large copy that was ...
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October 28, 2009
- Last week I visited The Netherworld haunted houses in Atlanta. In my entire life -- and we're talking 40 plus years, here -- I don’t recall ever going to a haunted house. And why not? Well, probably because I'm a big scaredy-cat. I don’t watch scary movies and I still look under my bed from time-to-time JUST TO BE SURE. Well, when you have a ghost living in your house, you have to make ...
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October 23, 2009
- One of my friends has a friend policy. It states: "Let no worlds collide."Meaning, when she has a party, if it's not for the group of her friends with whom I am connected, I'm not invited. She doesn't want work to collide with friendship to collide with another friendship. She doesn't want us networking, connecting, developing relationships and because we are connected by her, ...
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October 23, 2009
- One of my friends has a friend policy. It states: "Let no worlds collide."Meaning, when she has a party, if it's not for the group of her friends with whom I am connected, I'm not invited. She doesn't want work to collide with friendship to collide with another friendship. She doesn't want us networking, connecting, developing relationships and because we are connected by her, ...
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October 20, 2009
- And here's another question: is there such a thing as friendship between women and men, in the way there is friendship between women and women, and men and men? If there is, what's it like? (I don't mean the friendship with the colleague at work.) Can friendship even be defined so as to allow the possibility of women and men being friends? Is desire allowed? Under what ...
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October 14, 2009
- She received the Autumn wind as she opened the window, like an embrace from a loving mother or a passionate lover.. The wind rushed into her still room, full of still objects, fingering her hair and engulfing all of her as if the cool air longed for her warmth, her existence.. Everything danced, the blouses were like they were worn by unseen spirits, the books flapped their papers in ecstasy, ...
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October 13, 2009
- 1988 was a very good year. I spent the summer anchored alone in Georgetown, Bahamas aboard Lady Ace, a 67 foot ketch rigged sailboat, surviving the hurricane season. Every morning when Stocking Cap was not on island, I gave the weather report and international news over Channel 10 on the VHF to benefit the smaller vessels without the benefit of Weatherfax or single sideband. I met many ...
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October 7, 2009
- Recently, I received the following email from an old friend. “A topic I would like you to cover/explore is that curious phenomenon which permits otherwise independent women to be dominated...even abused...by males with whom they share some sort or relationship. Why is it that a seemingly strong, intelligent woman would allow herself to be hurt...her life to be altered in a negative way ...
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