Tag: friends
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Snow Leopard Friendships
Sometimes in life, you have to spend months, even years, slowly and patiently developing a friendship. Perhaps you interact occasionally at group functions, knowing each other from a distance, and then over time come to realize you could be friends. Or perhaps you even dislike each other, avoiding or fighting constantly, until, after so…
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I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends
Although experience is lauded as the greatest teacher, I realized last night that many of my long-lasting life lessons came from my friends. And so, in case you didn’t have friends to teach you each of these lessons, here are a few of the things I’ve learned from the friends around me. (In no particular…
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My Own Reminder
Tonight I accidentally shattered a bottle of wine on the steps of a church in Tbilisi, Georgia. I never thought I would say that sentence. Yesterday I had pizza with a girl who grew up in a village where soldiers kidnapping children for ransom and women for wives is still a frequent occurrence. I really…
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Something for Your Monday
Two things: I love this, and thought it might make your Monday better, too: 2. I’m going to be traveling this week and next, so consider this your head’s up in preparation for…GUEST BLOGGERS! That’s right. New voices, new thoughts, new senses of humor. Brace yourselves. And check back on Friday to see who…
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To Kylie, c/o God
Dear Kermit, I wish you were here… to help our friends grieve. to sit with my mother while she cries. to see people show up from all over the world to honor you. to mock the music they played at your funeral. I wish you were here… to see your brother come to church.…