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    • ore-gone

      Posted at 3:26 pm by jasminedesirees, on May 2, 2014

      In just under an hour I’ll be taking off for Bend, to spend some quality time with my best girl. I haven’t seen her since my last foray up there in November, so it’s long over due.

      I am hoping for a weekend of coffee and crosswords, Caesar’s, yoga, mimosas at Chow, and a really good chat, as both of us hate to talk on the phone so we don’t communicate very well in the long spans when we don’t see each other.

      That’s the thing about best girl’s though, is that it doesn’t really matter how long it is between visits, because things tend to fall right back into place as soon as you’re back together again.

      Posted in family, friends, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged Bend, friends, friendship, oregon
    • we who are your closest friends

      Posted at 8:44 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 18, 2014

      Love this poem:

      We Who Are Your Closest Friends

      we who are
      your closest friends
      feel the time
      has come to tell you
      that every Thursday
      we have been meeting
      as a group
      to devise ways
      to keep you
      in perpetual uncertainty
      frustration
      discontent and
      torture
      by neither loving you
      as much as you want
      nor cutting you adrift.
      Your analyst is
      in on it,
      plus your boyfriend
      and your ex-husband;
      and we have pledged
      to disappoint you
      as long as you need us
      In announcing our
      association
      we realize we have
      placed in your hands
      a possible antidote
      against uncertainty
      indeed against ourselves.
      But since our Thursday nights
      have brought us
      to a community
      of purpose
      rare in itself
      with you as
      the natural center,
      we feel hopeful you
      will continue to make unreasonable
      demands for affection
      if not as a consequence
      of your disastrous personality
      then for the good of the collective
      By Phillip Lopate
      Posted in art, poetry | 1 Comment | Tagged art, friends, friendship, Phillip Lopate, poetry, uncertainty, writing
    • at first sight

      Posted at 8:30 pm by jasminedesirees, on August 14, 2013

      I heard from an old friend last night, and it was so nice. It’s easy to get busy with work and other things and not make as much effort to keep in touch, and before you know it, it’s been months or years since you’ve talked.

      There are a lot of friends like that that I’ve made over the years, and then slowly, even though you still care about them and miss them, it gets harder and harder to keep in contact, as you know less and less about each other’s lives and actually getting on the phone and talking only makes that more obvious, and you start to doubt your friendship, and wonder if the other person even cares to hear from you anymore.

      But then there are those people that you just click with, instantly. I don’t believe people only have one soul mate, and I don’t think that if you do have one, it necessarily needs to be romantic. There are just people in life that I have clicked with, sometimes honestly at first sight, and we’ve been friends ever since. And we’ll be friends forever because even if I never spoke to them again in my life, I know we’d still feel exactly the same way about each other.

      Those are the kinds of friends that even if you don’t know the name of their dog, or even their address, you could see them after 10 years of not talking and pick up exactly where you left off, and those are the kinds of friends I am lucky enough to have.

      Posted in friends, life, love, thoughts | 0 Comments | Tagged friends, friendship, life, love, thoughts
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