89. It's Still Wine And Cheese Night 🍷🧀
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Good morning friends,
Here’s five things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. Friendship 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏽
Still thinking about this beautiful interpretation of friendship by Nick Cave. Thinking too, on all the friendships over the course of my life that felt ‘off’; made me feel shit or those that I happily allowed to dissolve and/or actively removed from my life.
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“There seems to me to be three levels of friendship.
First there is the friend who you go out and eat with, or get pissed with, who you go with to the cinema or a gig — you know, have a shared experience with.
The second kind of friend is one who you can ask a favour of, who will look after you in a jam, will lend you money, or drive you to the hospital in the middle of the night, someone who has your back — that kind of friend.
The third level of friendship is one where your friend brings out the best in you, who amplifies the righteous aspects of your nature, who loves you enough to be honest with you, who challenges you, and who makes you a better person.
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Sometimes you find someone who fulfils all of these categories. If you find a friend like that, hang on to him or her. They are rare.
Warren is such a friend.
When Warren and I are playing music together, we do not have to deal with the problems of an unstable relationship, or questions of status, or struggles for power. We are friends, pure and simple, and we just get on with the work at hand — two people creating something greater than the sum of its parts — the fruits of the collaboration emerging directly from the friendship itself.”
2. A Poem 💛
breathe we — Juan Felipe Herrera
breathe for George Floyd we
breathe for compassion we
do not know what that is we
another black man holy we
gone now George Floyd we
Ahmaud running street endless we
America scream & love we
do not know what love is we
breathe George Floyd flames we
next to you on a sp halt cho ke we
knee Am Am
e ri c a w e
3. Staycation 🏨
This gorgeous new hotel in Kent on my list to see before I leave.
4. Reading 🔖
When We Stayed Home — Hole & Corner Still Life
5. 💬
The word of the day is bupkis.
See you next Sunday.
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