Friends In All Seasons

~ Friends In All Seasons ~

I will attempt to understand you,
even when you don't understand you.
I ask the same of you.

When I speak to you and attempt
to console or council you,
You may not like the words I speak,
but I will speak them in friendship,
a friendship that has a foundation
of love and caring.

It's quite easy to be friends on
a sunny bright day, when all is
well and the birds sing us their song.

It's quite another thing to have found
ourselves caught in a flash flood.
I have a tight grip on a tree
branch and our hands are gripped
together holding on, lest we be swept away.

We were placed in each other's life paths
for a reason. We have bonded by the
parallels of our lives.
I am thankful for you.

In all seasons my friend,
May you feel the embrace
of my friendship, and I yours.

Dedicated to
~Gabrielle
3-27-2004~~~ Love Deb

~ Friend – Ship ~

Twenty years ago there is no way anyone could have

conceived of the world that has been created all thanks
to the world wide web.  The idea of people meeting
through an electronic medium and then developing
deep friendships would have been the stuff of science fiction.
Yet through the WWW we have come to know ….
“It’s a small world after all”.

In all parts of life, the kind where you share
air space and the kind where you share the written word
it all evolves in the same way….
You meet and share common ground.   
Trust grows and you become friends.

Friends don’t flatter you with unnecessary bull shit, they do so

because they see the magic and potential inside of you.
Sometimes you don’t even SEE the beauty that they do.
A friend reads between your lines.

“A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude towards

a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive
qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.”

That is the definition of love, but it could also be related to

a friend.

~ Friend – Ship ~ is a boat that floats when tended with love.

I love you my kindred friends and I thank you for your ~ Friend – Ship ~.