tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post6719902100550372891..comments2023-08-13T05:26:06.112-04:00Comments on Vinegar and Honey: Thoughts On FriendshipUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-61326478798778877682007-09-18T19:51:00.000-04:002007-09-18T19:51:00.000-04:00And I am proud to call you my friend! love ya!And I am proud to call you my friend! love ya!Northwoods Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700271652259176503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-29209683063128331172007-09-17T20:38:00.000-04:002007-09-17T20:38:00.000-04:00Thanks, Sue...I know what you mean about acquainta...Thanks, Sue...I know what you mean about acquaintances and really close friends. There is a vast difference. <BR/><BR/>Those frinds with whom you can open up, and let your feelings out, are to be treasured...and sometimes, hard to find.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083702120097667613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-24484334447657190442007-09-17T13:40:00.000-04:002007-09-17T13:40:00.000-04:00I have lots of aquaintances, but not a lot of frie...I have lots of aquaintances, but not a lot of friends. It is hard for me to open up... having said that, I have made a couple of really good friends through this strange place called blog-land. Amazing how you can open up to each other and let your feelings out - then find you may have people out there who have similar feelings! Truly a surprise.<BR/><BR/>Great post, Jan.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087761009975204727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-3611068441934990792007-09-15T15:49:00.000-04:002007-09-15T15:49:00.000-04:00Olivia..yes, she was one of the greatest poets, bu...Olivia..yes, she was one of the greatest poets, but virtually unknown in her lifetime.<BR/><BR/>Ironically, she preferred spending much of her time alone.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083702120097667613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-21774940343712689432007-09-15T15:21:00.000-04:002007-09-15T15:21:00.000-04:00vin..I am very sorry to hear about your friend, an...vin..I am very sorry to hear about your friend, and whatever you're feeling right now IS appropriate for the moment.<BR/><BR/>We all have these fears, when we are faced with our own mortality, especially so when there are so many deaths taking place all around us.<BR/><BR/>Since Steve is your good friend, continue to be a good friend to him, just by letting him know that you are there for him.<BR/><BR/>As far as waking up a braver man, it is not that you are not brave..it's just that you are human, with ordinary human emotions.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083702120097667613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-86240520764083191652007-09-15T02:14:00.000-04:002007-09-15T02:14:00.000-04:00I have recently made some valuable friends on the ...I have recently made some valuable friends on the internet, but in my own local socio-sphere I have had less luck since I moved to NorCal. The aquaintences I have made have been departing this world faster than I am able to scrutinize and accept them into my tight circle of what I consider friends. For a rural commnity, the death rate seems extremely high in my neighborhood. I have lost a neighbor next door on the left, and another to the right, one across the street, and then another next door on the left and then another neighbor to the right of me all within the past three years. I lost my number one fan about a month ago, and today I learned my new aquaintance Steve whom I have sang and jammed and joked around and spent quality time with has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to all 12 of the areas they biopsied. <BR/>I want to be sad, angry, to feel something appropriate, but at the moment all I can feel is the fear of my own mortality and guilt for wanting to avoid looking Steve in the eyes.<BR/>I hope tomorow morning I wake up a braver man.Rio Vista Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00874243711162984051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071607692933192813.post-39773609773641422772007-09-15T01:07:00.000-04:002007-09-15T01:07:00.000-04:00Ah, more on friendship, Jan.I find lifetime friend...Ah, more on friendship, Jan.<BR/>I find lifetime friends are as rare as birds with golden feathers.<BR/>Your great American poet Emily Dickinson wrote about friendship:<BR/><BR/>I'm Nobody! Who are you?<BR/>Are you -- Nobody -- too?<BR/>Then there's a pair of us?<BR/>Don't tell! They'd advertise - you know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com