Why Bother to Write? Part IV
“Write for your friends…and for people you might want to be friends with.” Ashes from the flames / The truth…
friendship
I Need New Glasses for this Relationship
Friendship is an exercise in learning to love the gifts God gives us without turning them into idols. Ethan PyleEthan…
What a Painting Showed Me About Memory
Can I impart visceral memory through words? Can any combination of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs communicate how the breeze…
Acknowledging Beauty in the Embers
“I cannot escape the fact that the burden of memory is rarely light in a corrupted world where fear…
My Friend, The Tree: Sentinel of the Field
Loneliness carves out hollow places in our beings, but sometimes we find friends in unexpected places to be sentinels of…
Tea and Avonlea
Creating a home-space where friendships can grow. In Oxford you never have to be alone. But then, you might never be…
There’s Always Time for Tea
A small way to make space for intentional relationships. Joy ClarksonJoy Clarkson is a featured columnist and the Director of…
How to Host a Successful Book Club
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” –P.G. Wodehouse
The Risk (and the Art) of Creating Friendships
Good friendship is indeed art, and I am convinced that it might be the most dangerous, satisfying form of artwork.
Tending the Tree of Friendship
To cultivate rich friendship, like husbanding a vineyard, there are times when we have to cut off activities like sucker…
Community: People or Place?
Is the fact that we don’t know leading us to create designer friendships? Brian BrownBrian Brown loves building the environments,…
Friendship in the Age of Romance
A crucial thing. Gracy OlmsteadFeatured columnist Gracy Olmstead is a senior writer for The American Conservative, a senior contributor for…
In Praise of Neighbors
Lessons from childhood and graduate school: what moving to a new place has taught me about friendship, community, and interdependence….