What a lovely remembrance of your dear friend, Rona. But I’d argue that daydreams are as real as our own brief lives, our stories of what should have been in a better world.
You found this! I haven’t emailed it to subscribers but will link to it in Sunday’s post, another spin on mortality, mourning and celebrating—the theme that never lets me go.
Aristotle said “a friend is another self.” Maybe, but I know that I’ve loved my friends more than I loved myself. Today would have been the 72nd birthday of my dearest childhood friend. I miss her. Xo
Birthdays are so hard. Also anniversaries of the death. The older we get, the more loss we carry. It’s important to make younger friends. I’ve been letting that slip these last few years.
In her interview with Alan Cheuse that Mary Tabor posted today, she quoted back to him something he'd said to another interviewer: "Memory is the fiction and what we reconstruct is fact." Here, Rona, you've reconstructed for us a friendship obviously built with and on love, and it speaks to everything that I imagine must be true of you whenever you are in another's life. It's rare and beautiful.
What a lovely remembrance of your dear friend, Rona. But I’d argue that daydreams are as real as our own brief lives, our stories of what should have been in a better world.
You found this! I haven’t emailed it to subscribers but will link to it in Sunday’s post, another spin on mortality, mourning and celebrating—the theme that never lets me go.
Aristotle said “a friend is another self.” Maybe, but I know that I’ve loved my friends more than I loved myself. Today would have been the 72nd birthday of my dearest childhood friend. I miss her. Xo
Birthdays are so hard. Also anniversaries of the death. The older we get, the more loss we carry. It’s important to make younger friends. I’ve been letting that slip these last few years.
In her interview with Alan Cheuse that Mary Tabor posted today, she quoted back to him something he'd said to another interviewer: "Memory is the fiction and what we reconstruct is fact." Here, Rona, you've reconstructed for us a friendship obviously built with and on love, and it speaks to everything that I imagine must be true of you whenever you are in another's life. It's rare and beautiful.