The Resolute Woman

Category: friends

  • Sanctimonious?

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    “True, madam, those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in their bosom,” Marlow says to Kate in Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer.” I recently saw the play at Shakespeare in the Park in Dallas, and I discovered, during a little bit of online investigation, that Oliver Goldsmith disliked the…

  • A garden without flowers

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    Our friends Mark and Eva, who now live in Washington state, came to visit, and we ate hamburgers cooked outside on the grill and Greek potato salad that I made with a new recipe. Then, our friends Ken and Gail came over, and the six of us shared conversation and chocolate cake. The next day,…

  • Another point of view

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    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his (or her) point of view,” said Harper Lee. Lee, who died recently, was the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

  • Helping a friend

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    I’m the helper now. After I shattered my femur earlier this year, I had lots of people helping me—friends and family who called me often, cooked food for me and drove me to physical therapy. Now my good friend Lynn has a broken arm, and I recently spent a week driving her to the doctor,…

  • I’m walking again

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    It has been many months since I fell while walking my dog and shattered my femur. I had two surgeries. Then, I used a wheelchair and a walker. And, finally, a cane. Now I’m walking again. Without a cane! I am limping a bit, and I am a little slow. But, my good friend and…

  • Friends are like quilts

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    My good friend Mary, who was my roommate in college, sent me this wonderful quote. “Good friends are like quilts. They age with you, and yet, they never lose their warmth. Take good care of them.” –Joy

  • What a world

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    Abby, one of the characters in Anne Tyler’s book A Spool of Blue Thread, remembers that the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz,” said, “I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world.” Abby is the mother of four, the collector of “orphans.” Her orphans, who frequently show up at holiday dinners, are…

  • How’s your physiology?

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    Katie Karlovitz, a public speaking coach, says that your effectiveness as a speaker depends 55 percent on your physiology, 38 percent on your tonality and 7 percent on your content. I checked and physiology refers to a branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter. Karlovitz is…

  • A Heaven full of friends

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    “My only sketch, profile of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June—and, in it, are my friends—every one of them.” That’s a quote from Emily Dickinson. I found it in a book called On Friendship—A Selection. The book was edited by Louise Bachelder. –Joy

  • What’s our duty?

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    “All his life he’s been longing for company and nobody has wanted him….He has no charm and he knows it. Can’t connect. Can’t hear people thinking,” says Dulcie. “Can’t help being what he is. He knows that nobody ever liked him. Haven’t I a duty to him?” Fayteen and I both know people who, for…