{"id":1278,"date":"2011-07-22T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:07:15","slug":"girl-getaway-30-years-later-we-still-can-stop-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/22\/girl-getaway-30-years-later-we-still-can-stop-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Getaway, 30 years later we still can stop talking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been struggling all week about what to write about, the green tomatoes waiting on the vine? nah, not ripe yet, how about the House Finches lining the fence? nah maybe next week\u2026. all I can think about this week is the weekend when I get to be with some of my longest, fastest friends, so why not write about that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/38a-girl-getaway.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-821\" title=\"38a girl getaway\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/38a-girl-getaway.jpg?resize=590%2C166\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We meet thirty years ago at college.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard for me now to even remember how.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t all live on the same dorm floor, we didn\u2019t have the same major\u2026 but a strong thread connected each of us from one friend to the next that has created a lovely bond. \u00a0This is a kind o friendship that is deep and wide and persistent. \u00a0I have found over the years there are scores of friendship modes, and I want to say at the start that all kinds of friendship are important for life to roll smoothly and pleasantly along.\u00a0 There are friends of place, such as work friends, or friends in a class you\u2019re taking.\u00a0 This is someone you enjoy spending time with, have some laughs and maybe even an after work drink or break time snack, but when someone moves or leaves or the class is over then the friendship fads.\u00a0 There are friends of circumstance, you have a 3 year old she has a three year old, play time and park time are more pleasant with another mom, but when kids go off to different schools and the circumstances change, the friendship fads.\u00a0 There are transitory friendships, my family and I just experience this last week on a three-day river-rafting trip.\u00a0 There were 13 people on the trip but we particularly connected with one couple, chatting and sharing and laughing.\u00a0 Afterwards the trip photos were exchanged via email but this was a friendship of the moment, one that helps pass the time pleasantly with hugs exchanged at parting. \u00a0This is not unlike the little moments of pleasant chat one finds with another while waiting on jury duty or in the DMV line, a transitory friendship typically forged by mutual frustration which fads as quickly as you get to the front of the line.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not forget the latest friendship phenomenon of \u201cFacebook Friends\u201d.\u00a0 This is a huge topic all it\u2019s own, a sort of public intimacy that is neither intimate nor personal, a sort of friendship making by casting fistful of seeds and seeing who responds.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to dismiss any of these kinds of friendships; even the briefest of friendly encounters adds positive energy into the atmosphere and we all know the world needs as much of that as it can get.\u00a0 But this weekend is about friendship multifaceted and rich.\u00a0 When we five get together now it is so brief and infrequent and cherished that no one wants to leave the room lest they miss something.\u00a0 A fivesome where the talking is so animated and interesting that the one stuck driving this bunch has to pull over or rolling off the road.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait!\u00a0 Friendship over place and time, circumstance and experience one of the truest gifts of this one 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