Some Friends

KateSome friends take you just as you are.  They don't need you to dial back or simmer down.  Some friends will go there with you, wherever "there" might be today. They'll dig in and pull apart the tangles with you, or just sit with you and your coffee and the best chocolate on earth that they arrive with as a matter of fact.  They'll join you in your fantasy of how one might thank such chocolate-makers properly.

Some friends feel like you've known them forever.  They come with the kind of connection that defies time or geographic distance.  You love them as though you've been loving them your whole life long, and they understand you so instinctually that they might as well have been with you since the beginning.

Some friends know how to be brave.  How to dream a life and make it, how to dream a love and hope for it.  Some friends know how to greet the coming future with hearts cracked open wide.  They sit patiently with sadness through the long, quiet hours of night.  But when it is time, they slide off sorrow like an evening gown that is out of place at dawn, and they run with bare feet to greet the morning sun.

Comments

[emily]

what a glorious person she must be (as you must be, for drawing her into your life). i think i'd like to paste those words to my bathroom mirror to remind me how (who) i'd like to be.

[heather]

"they run with bare feet to greet the morning" yes. yes. yes.

[Katie @ cakes, tea and dreams]

I want to be that kind of friend. I already have friends like this - and how lucky am I.

[Shalet]

Wonderful to have such a friend!

[Kathy B]

Awesome, Jen. You captured it. Kate is true blue.

[Nadine]

What a gorgeous post!
I have some friends like this, too.
And I was talking with one of them today about how you don't need many of these people. Just a few. The right few.

Your blog wonderful.

[mekate]

Ahhhh, such sweet truth.

xoxxo
Kate

Blogging at www.kate-johnson.com
and
www.i-cant-whistle.blogspot.com

[lisa]

i have shivvers. and the last line: amazingly brilliant.