Recently, over a 3 day span, 5 friends had each given her own gift of friendship:
1 - Perfectly restored a damaged baby quilt and gave me her special refrigerator
cookie dough, ready to bake
2 – Gifted me with flower plants – prepared the soil and taught me how to plant
the flowers
3 - Took a walk- served apple pie - volunteered to grow tiny succulents for an
upcoming project – gifted me with a giant garden onion
4 - Shared the story of her grandmother.
5 – Worked together as a team
I keep thinking of John O’Donohue’s poem Anam Cara.
Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in
the Celtic world was the “soul friend.”
Here is O’Donohur’s poem to honor all friends, near and far.
“May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where
there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
may they bring you all the blessing, challenges, truth,
and light that you need for your journey.
May you never be isolated.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam ċara.
From Anam Cara: A Book Of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
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