Monday, March 2, 2015

The Kindness of Seemingly Endless Listening

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A woman I know felt on the brink -- on the edge of what she could handle.  It was too many things coming together at once, including uncertainty.  And so she called her steadfast friend.  And as so many times before, her friend talked her back from the edge.  "Don't worry until you have something to worry about," was part of the sage advice that her friend offered.  And then her friend listened and listened and listened.  And the woman I know finally felt better.

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