5 Strengths You’ll Gain From a Cross-Cultural Friendship
Ah, I love friendships! Cultivating new ones, delving deeper into old ones, resting comfortably in an ever-present one, or savoring the delight of physical time with a normally-distant friend. I’d venture to say that my friendships are one of the things in my life that I hold most dear, especially one particular kind of friendship: […]
Mucoore Wakwa, My Friend
When I first arrived in the barren land of Eastern Kenya, a thin young woman at the translation center approached me cautiously with her hand out and greeted me in the local language. I responded in kind and smiled. Her cheeks rose, and she grinned back white teeth glistening against her beautiful, dark skin. “Yes,” […]
Life-Long Friends + Sweet Roasted Veggies
I’ve always wanted that life-long friend. Maybe you have one. She knows your past, how you grew up in a setting that influenced you both—in one way or another. She has celebrated the joys and mourned the hardships. She encouraged you when you were down and simply sat with you when you didn’t know what […]
Zooming Out to Find Perspective
Ask someone who has lived their whole life in one place about friendship, and they’ll tell you about their best friend that goes back at least thirty years. They probably still see this dear friend once a week. Ask someone who has lived more than a few places in their life about friendship, and they’ll […]
This Week’s Theme: Friends
“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves You have washed clothes by hand? You know how horrible dengue fever is? You have ached with loneliness, homesickness and anxiety, even while knowing […]