this is very apt.

{scrabble in the park}

I've been meaning to post the link to this article for a while now. It makes me rather happy to read about other people who feel similarily about the value of dedicated, creative & supportive friendships, and who realize that these relationships are just as important, profound, & fulfilling as any marriage or conventional 'romantic' relationship.

With a few strategic word changes, many paragraphs become strikingly applicable, indeed.

"With ink-stained fingers, the Edmontonian roommate-friends would smear cream cheese on thick slices of bread and then lounge across from each other on the bohemian-shabby pheasant couch to discuss a poem-in-progress or a radio show proposal they'd just drafted. Their brains beat as passionately as their hearts."