THE A - Z OF FRIENDSHIP

A Friend....
(A)ccepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up on you
(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over
(J)ust wants to "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life
(N)ever Judges
(O)ffers support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits
(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you
(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains things you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality

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A FRIEND IS A TREASURE

A friend is someone we turn to
When our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift,
A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the world we live in
A better and happier place.

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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
A friend of yours
Is thinking of you.

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THOUGHT YOU CAN USE SOME WORDS OF WISDOM!!!!
    
1. You cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who 
can be loved.

2. No matter how much you care, some people just don't care back.

3. It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

4. It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life 
that counts.

5. You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes, after that you'd 
better know something.

6. You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do but to the 
best you can do.

7. It's not what happens to people that's important, it's what they do 
about it.

8. You can do something in an instant that will give you heartaches 
for life.

9. No matter how thin you slice it, there's always two sides.

10. It takes you a long time to become the person you want to be.

11. It's a lot easier to react than it is to think.

12. You should always leave loved ones with loving words, it may be 
the last time you see them.

13. You can keep going long after you think you can't.

14. You are responsible for what you do, no matter how you feel.

15. Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

16. Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the 
passion fades and there has better be something else to take its place.

17. Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to 
be done, regardless of the consequences.

18. Learning to forgive takes practice.

19. There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to 
show it.

20. Money is a lousy way of keeping score.

21. You and your best friend can do anything or nothing and have the 
best time.

22. Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will 
be the ones to help you get back up.

23. Sometimes when you're angry you have the right to be angry, but 
that doesn't give you the right to be cruel.

24. True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest 
distances...same goes for true love.

25. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to 
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

26. Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had 
and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many 
birthdays you've celebrated.

27. You should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or
outlandish...few things are more humiliating and what a tragedy it 
would be if they believed it.

28. Your family won't always be there for you, it may seem funny, but 
people you aren't related to can take care of you and love you and 
teach you to trust people again...families aren't biological.

29. No matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every 
once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

30. It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others...sometimes you 
have to learn to forgive yourself.

31. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for 
your grief.

32. Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, 
but you are responsible for who you become.

33. Sometimes when your friends fight, you're forced to choose sides 
even when you don't want to.

34. Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love 
each other...and just because they don't argue it doesn't mean they do.

35. Sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.

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Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if he betrays you twice, 
it's your fault.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

God gives every bird it's food,
But He does not throw it into it's nest.

He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses more;
He who loses faith, loses all.

Beautiful young people are acts of nature, But beautiful old people 
are works of art.

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Friends, you and me....
you brought another friend...
and then there were 3...
we started our group...
Our circle of friends...
and like that circle...
there is no beginning or end..

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If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.

For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness. 

Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the 
mute can speak.

What holds you together is far greater than what can tear you apart.

Respect costs nothing.

Life is like a soap opera. God is the head writer; your story line 
keeps changing; it's a daily event; and there are Friday cliffhangers.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with. Marry the one you 
can't live without.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so 
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which had been 
opened for us.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

Speak only well of people, and you need never whisper.

Pray for what you want, but work for it.

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THE POLITICALLY CORRECT 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
Significant Other, a consenting adult in a monogamous relationship
gave to me:

TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,

ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for
in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a
note),

TEN melanin deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
ruling class system leaping,

NINE female persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,

EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products
from enslaved Bovine-Americans,

SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,

SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,

FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
incarceration,

(NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to 
throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens, turtle 
doves and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To 
avoid further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package 
has been revised.)

FOUR hours of recorded whale songs

THREE deconstructionist poets

TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses

and... ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.

Merry Christmas  Happy Chanukah. Good Kwanzaa.  Blessed Yule. Oh,
heck! Happy Holidays!!!! (unless otherwise prohibited by law) *

*Unless, of course, you are suffering from Seasonally Affected
Disorder (SAD). If this be the case, please substitute this gratuitous
call for celebration with suggestion that you have a thoroughly
adequate day.