Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My friend and I had fun this morning planning the baby shower she is giving for our daughter.  We enjoyed the choices we made and the menu and colors and decorations.  It's a happy occasion, and the thought of it cheered up a gray overcast morning.  And we are knitting together our long friendship by her generous act:  another milestone shared and later remembered with fondness.  We parted glowing from the planning now done and a join visualization of what needed to be accomplished and when.  This kind of speech is plain old bonding.  Generations are being formed and older ones passing.  It's the way of the world, and we are comfortable with it.  It so helps to have friends along the path side by side with you.  I'm lucky.