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Thursday, 2 September 04 ::
old friends.. new friends..
i like my new friends. the new ones, the ones that i am sharing adrenaline filled moments with. they are kind, mostly gentle, geeky... like me. but they are new, to the greatest extent of new. i don't touch them like i do my friends. i don't greet them with hugs of knowledge, i don't part with hugs of comfort.
tonight my friend e came to call with us. e hugs. e tells me she loves me even though we've never socialized outside of activist work. i know she loves me, and i love her. the whole time she was around i kept hugging her. i kept hugging e, i kept hugging her familiarity, her knowledge of me a year ago when i went to greece, her knowledge of me before i uncame out. it was nice.
my friend k emailed tonight about meetings. my first email off to her was that i couldn't be there.. my second was i miss y'all.. so, even though its a long boring meeting, i want to go, because i want to be around people that i have history with.
yeah yeah.. co-manager and i have spent time talking. yeah yeah, we laugh at each other. we've shared shit about our lives.. yeah, she's great. but the knowledge we have of each other, well.. its a month old. its not a year or 2 old.
i ended up calling k tonight. we talked about lots of stuff. i told her about co-manager and the friendship we seem to be creating. but then i told her that i missed her. i told her that i know that sounded sappy and all, but thats just how i felt. and k, k was great.. she said it wasn't sappy, she was glad to hear it.
i really think these new relationships are great. i think they are valuable, and i hope they extend past this project. i hope i'm just building a bigger community for myself with them..
but as the old saying goes.. 'make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold..' and these friends of mine, these activist friends of mine, yeah, dig-it, they're gold.
posted by brooke at September 2, 2004 11:25 PM
