Today I am relishing friendships. This summer I traveled to San Francisco with my dear friend, Janet. She was graduating from CIIS and receiving the hood of PhD in Philosophy of Religion. It is uncanny to me how our adult lives have run along along such a parallel course. We were together as undergrads in Philosophy, sharing friendships and late night discussions. We are together today as writers and students of Buddhism. As I watched her accept her degree after all these years of studying and writing I was elated and impressed. Elated to share the joy and impressed with the stamina, determination and patience of a woman willing to sacrifice for "a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything" as T.S. Eliot wrote in Little Gidding. Today I am relishing friendship. I am particularly delighting in my times with Janet. She has shared my accomplishments by adding her own joy and she has taken me in when my heart was breaking. She may be a Doctor of Philosophy but to me she is a healer of hearts.
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