Sometimes your best friend can drive you up the wall. Sometimes your enemy acts in the position of a best friend when he confronts you, illuminating and mirroring your opportunities to improve.
Yesterday John answered the phone and a childhood friend was so excited to finally find him, The old friend had been wanting to return a guy type thing he’d borrowed almost fifty years ago. The borrowing, and not returning, had cause a riff. But now all is square.
One of my childhood friends I visited a while back and returned a small white plastic horse she always thought she’d unjustly manipulated from me. The horse stands proudly in a display case not far from where I’m blogging. Its a beautiful little horse not because it’s well proportioned, it isn’t. It’s head is too small. The head looks like it was sawed off a smaller animal and glued onto my horse. Its beautiful because it reminds me that living honestly makes me happy with myself and others.
Sometimes your best friend is your sister. In the book ‘Dragon’s Tale’ Paul is fascinated but also exasperated with his sister’s imagination. Paul reports to his mother the strange stories his sister, Anna, has told him, hinting Mom should fix Anna. But then there are times when Paul would love to step into those stories and try them out.
“My dragon’s using Dad’s screw driver,” said Anna, “and that’s why he can’t find it. She’s fixing TV so I can walk inside the picture and go swimming.”
When Iva Lou swims underwater she breaths in the water and spits it out her mouth. She can spit it out between her side teeth to change direction.”
“I’d like to do that.” said Paul.  nancymauerman.com