A Narrative of a Friendship

Mary Gardner and I have been here at The Sea Ranch for a week working on a couple of our books, trying to solve the debt ceiling problem, shopping and cooking, laughing, planning marketing strategies, walking along the bluffs…we’ve revisited Joseph Campbell’s “Power of Myth” in preparation for Taos: Song of the Loom, Linda’s third novel in the trilogy. Last night we saw the excellent local play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and recognized the parallels with our current political situation.  But perhaps the most striking insights about our friendship reaffirmed our mutual acknowledgement in Women’s Ways of Leading:

“First, we want to thank each other for continually deepening our understanding of reciprocity and friendship.  During the last two decades, we have worked on two other books together, but it has been this study of women’s leadership that has woven itself into the fabric of our relationship as well as the fabric of our lives. We listen to each other, construct knowledge together and accept responsibility for mutual decisions. Within a landscape of laughter we realize that a lightness of spirit is like a shared secret, a magnetic circle sometimes blurring lines of separateness. We often laugh at ourselves as well, making fears and hesitations buoyant and fleeting….”

Wishing you deep friendships, Linda and Mary

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