Today i had a gentle start with my girlfriend Gail - now there's a passionate friendship that grew from mutual respect, shared interests and a passion for justice, spirit, labyrinths and photography among other things!
We found this card with an image of a beautiful naked woman at a gallery in the Borders and today sent it to Kate for her birthday - a passionate friendship that began back in the early 90s when Kate was doing her PhD and i was working in the university bookshop.
Then i drove up to Dunblane to visit Alison and she showed me the painting they had commissioned in Brisbane and which had just arrived back with them safely - it is by an Aborginal artist and shows a family of two parents and three children with the ancestor spirits as dolphins above. Alison and i are passionate friends and Friends (Quaker) and first met in the late 80s at university in St Andrews.
Passion is not about romance or sex or about heightened emotion or about any one aspect of life. It might be jealous, it might be angry, but it always holds love at its core.
Passionate friendship is about caring so deeply that you will work on the difficulties, face any challenges and sustain the friendship no matter the distance or differences...
Well, that's what it means to me. What about you?
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