What treasure can life offer greater than beautiful friendship? If you have such treasure don’t neglect it or take it for granted, but appreciate the blessing, and give it the time and life energy to keep it alive. <\/p>\n
In the final scene of the heart-centered movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe<\/i><\/a>, an old woman is reflecting back on a long and fulfilled life and sharing her wisdom with a middle-aged woman. <\/p>\n “You reminded me about what the most important thing in life is. You know what I think it is?” Consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30:<\/p>\n “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought What treasure can life offer greater than beautiful friendship? If you have such treasure don’t neglect it or take it for granted, but appreciate the blessing, and give it the time and life energy to keep it alive. <\/p>\n In the final scene of the heart-centered movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe<\/i><\/a>, an old woman is reflecting back on a long and fulfilled life and sharing her wisdom with a middle-aged woman. <\/p>\n “You reminded me about what the most important thing in life is. You know what I think it is?” Consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30:<\/p>\n “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Friends banner at Arkansas Gathering
\n“No, ma’am.”
\n“Friends, best friends.”<\/p>\n
\nI summon up remembrance of things past,
\nI sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
\nAnd with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
\nThen can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
\nFor precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
\nAnd weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
\nAnd moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
\nThen can I grieve at grievances foregone,
\nAnd heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
\nThe sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
\nWhich I new pay as if not paid before.
\nBut if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
\nAll losses are restored and sorrows end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":{"card_id":"367","title":"Friends","caption":"
\n“No, ma’am.”
\n“Friends, best friends.”<\/p>\n
\nI summon up remembrance of things past,
\nI sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
\nAnd with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
\nThen can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
\nFor precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
\nAnd weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
\nAnd moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
\nThen can I grieve at grievances foregone,
\nAnd heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
\nThe sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
\nWhich I new pay as if not paid before.
\nBut if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
\nAll losses are restored and sorrows end.”<\/p>\n","subcaption":"
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