good friendships are like breakfast.

it’s essential. it doesn’t happen without work, effort, and sacrifice. but my goodness, dear ones, it’s worth it. it’s worth it to sow seeds of friendship intentionally and often. as those seeds sprout and grow, you’ll realize the beauty in the harvest. every-day life was meant to be experienced together.

“so walk across the street, or drive across town, or fly across the country, but don’t let really intimate loving friendships become the last item on a long to-do list.

good friendships are like breakfast.

you think you are too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired.

in the same way, you can try to go it alone because you don’t have time or because your house is too messy to have people over, or because making new friends is like the very worst parts of dating. but halfway through a hard day or hard week, you’ll realize in a flash that you’re breathtakingly lonely, and that Christmas cards aren’t much company.

get up, make a phone call, buy a cheap ticket, open your front door. because there is really nothing like good friends, like the sounds of their laughter and the tones of their voices and the things they teach us in the quietist, smallest moments.”