All the the essays are worthy reads. One of my favorites, which I just reread with pleasure, is "Running Mates" dealing with the subject of friendship. Here is a wonderful excerpt from that essay:
Some other Hoagland quotes on a cool site I had not seen before.
Friendship can be exploitive and predatory, a strange symbiosis of quiet underwater carnage, though I've seldom seen one stay that way. Yet friends are partly for quarreling with. Most of us need to squabble occasionally in order to tap off our toxins, and friends permit us to without inflammatory consequences. We can be a trifle mean, or stumble into a brief tailspin, and be forgiven. Knowing our knotty nuttiness, our self-destructive lonely spells, they let us phone a bit too much and don't require us to specify just how tricky we feel. Friends are for jitters as well as barbecues.
All the best,
~ tom
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Great post man, and here we are, friends for almost a half a century. Damn.
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