A wise recipe · Friendship
A Recipe for a Good Friend
Nothing to bake. Read it at the table, or tape it inside a lunchbox lid.
Makes one friendship, keeps for years · A little every day
Ingredients
- •A pinch of listening — more than you think
- •One whole cup of showing up
- •Two spoons of saying sorry, level, not heaped
- •A handful of laughing at their joke, even the second time
- •Room enough for them to be quiet
How it's done
- 1
Ask how they are. Then wait for the real answer.
- 2
Fold in the thing they like doing, even if you like a different thing.
- 3
When it goes lumpy, don't throw it out. Stir gently and wait.
- 4
Add one kind word a day. It doesn't need to be a big one.
- 5
Keep somewhere warm.
Try one ingredient tomorrow and see what happens.
Nobody does it alone.
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