Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Last night I had long talks with two best buds.  It sure beats any movie or book for me.  I see another friend today and tomorrow still another.  I also take my foster granddaughter out to dinner.  This weekend is our younger daughter's baby shower, so lots of joy to come.  My connective tissue to my friends needs strengthening occasionally, and this is one of those weeks.  Can I stand alone?  I never try to find out.  As a friend of mine says, I'm tribal.  With a lot of my biological family gone, I lean on my chosen family.  We're here for each other through big and small events and rites of passage.  I've been to my kids' graduations and weddings without one blood relative, but the room was full.  My kids count on my friends as honorary aunts and uncles.  So here's to  the families we chose to love and be loyal to and be there in the hard times and good ones.  The human family, as an old book would have it.