Friendship Fridays

I decided to give "Football Fridays" a bye week (partly because my supply of new material for that particular category is running low after well over six weeks of this blog, not to mention the new Athletic Supporter, my sports-themed partner photoblog launched publicly earlier this week. I felt a tribute to friendship was due in light of events from this past week which have brought friendship to the forefront of my mind.*




When I moved away at nine years of age from the city in which I was born, leaving behind a modest but solid few strong friendships that have remained in various degrees to this day, my best friend and I would write one another valiantly every month or so (this is pre-email...and I mean 1993 pre-email, thank you very much). Without fail, we would always end our letters with one of the rhyming verse endings from the old Ethel Merman/Cole Porter song "Friendship" (which I believe we knew because of a recreation by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy somewhere around our childhoods). Thanks to the glorious wonder that is Facebook, we were able to reconnect recently as she celebrates her recent engagement. My, how we've grown!

It's friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blend-ship!
When other friendships have been forgot,
Our will still be hot!

(A-lawdle-lawdle-lawdle hep hep hep)