Path to Friendship

It is post Patty’s memorial. Cox’s make Camp Cox on Lake Hubert, available for a week to unwind for the seven of our nuclear family. They have made their cabin available to us a number of times over the years. What dear friends. I have known Jim and Michele for about sixty years. WOW. They have been there for me in thick and thin - real friends.

David Whyte, writes, in part, in his piece “Friendship”: “But no matter the medicinal virtues [forgiveness, and being there] of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self; the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.” - fitting words for Jim and Michele.

I am so grateful to have such close enduring friendships.

Path from Nisswa to Camp Cox