Comments on: Of Friendship, Proximity, and the Grave

By: Jack Stewart

Jack Stewart — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:38:00 +0000

Excellent! I wish I had written it. My friendships have never been cultivated enough by letters and libations. I repent. And shall endeavor to do better.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:32:35 +0000

This is such a great article – thank you. I read Lewis’ Four Loves very recently, and the topic of friendship has been on my mind daily as I think about the friendships I have that could be better, and the acquaintances I have that I want to deepen.

The line about the need for friendship pushing out the capacity for friendship resonated with me. I must first be a friend in order to have friends.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:26:30 +0000

This is great prose. Heart-felt.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:58:56 +0000

Thanks for this one, JP.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:20:22 +0000

Thank you for sharing this beautiful part of your life so beautifully! My first visit to this site; how fortuitous.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:21:36 +0000

Beautiful, Jason. I always enjoy your posts. It reminds me a lot of what both C.S. Lewis and Sheldon Vanauken have written about friendship.

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:04:07 +0000

There’s just the hint of sentimentality here, but I’m more than happy to accept it as salt (not saccharine) in an excellent piece. Thank you for enriching my day with this. As an extrovert with many acquaintances and no friends, I’ll have to walk around with a taste of the bitter in my mouth, but that’s also appropriate.

Before I submit the comment it occurs that so many who know me would be offended that I claim no friends; but if they read the article, how could they but admit that such relationships are the most rare and the word friend far too abused?

By: S.L. Toddard

S.L. Toddard — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:54 +0000

Wonderful.