Friendship

Noun:

The emotions or conduct of friends; the state of being friends. A relationship between friends.

Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. 
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 

Nigerian Proverb 
Hold a true friend with both your hands.  

 
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.     

             Aristotle                                                    

I have been on a quest to make friends- real, lasting friends. After many years of moving around the world, being married and growing kids, I am craving the steadiness and comfort of a good, solid friendship. You would think that would be pretty easy but I have actually found it fairly difficult. Don’t get me wrong, I have met so many different people, I could write a book! These women (and occasionally, men) have had a variety of  personalities, ranging from goofy and fun-loving to down right intense! I have even met additional women through them and for the most part, it has been an awesome experience. I have been blessed by meeting and being accepted by some truly amazing and gracious ladies and am honoured to call them friend but….I still crave “my person” I want to be like Meredith and Christina in “Grey’s Anatomy“. I need my person.

Marlene Dietrich 
It is the friends that you can call at 4 a.m. that matter.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 
* Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.

Sanity is 2 hours away!

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.” 
~ Epicurus

A couple of days ago, I had a decision to make. Not an earth shaking decision. Not a major life decision. But….something that would affect me. Not an end the world thing (maybe a little “rock my world” thing!) Nevertheless, it was important to me and I wanted a sounding board, someone to bounce the idea off of. I needed the voice of sanity. The one voice that would either say “Go ahead” or “What?!?!? Are you nuts???” Alas, she was in a different time zone…..2 hours ahead! So, I made the decision myself and I will wait patiently until she comes back so we can spend endless hours hashing and rehashing if I made the right decision. After all, this is how we do it!

                                         A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia
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