Welcome to another friendship roundup!
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Friendship Articles and More
I love doing these friendship roundups! I see so many friendship-related things, either because I find them myself or people send them to me. I’m going to keep sharing them on my site twice a month.
Articles About Friendship I’ve Liked Lately
— Really interesting article by Mia Brabham in Shondaland on how different friends and friend groups have handled discussions of money, splitting things, etc. “The Art of Friendship: How to Open Up About Money.”
— Thanks to my friend, Pam Moore (guest on episode 3 of Dear Nina) for sending me Mira Jacob’s piece in Harper’s Bazaar, “Home is Where Your Best Friend Is.” Mira write about her best friend of 22 years leaving NYC and the beginnings of making new local friends. I loved this paragraph about the process of putting herself out there to make new friends.
These days, I’ve been reaching out, going on new-friend dates, sitting on benches with women I don’t know. I want to say it’s going really well, but the truth is, a lot of times it is awkward. None of us are used to being physically close to people yet, much less extending ourselves toward strangers. But also, I love us in these moments. I love the me that reaches out and the them that shows up. I love our pauses, our questions, our tentative looks, wondering who we might become together. There is something so tender and wild about realizing that we are all lost girls in this moment, looking for a home in one another.
— In The Marginalian by Maria Popova, “Steinbeck and The Art of The Friendship Breakup”
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