Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I've just said goodbye to my best friend who was here for three days.  We had a great time and talked a lot, but interestingly, not as intensely and compulsively as we used to when we were younger.  Part of that is our weekly phone conversation, so there is nothing really to "catch up" on, and also the comfortableness we feel in each other's presence.  And I noticed my husband has figured out how to weave in and out of the conversations and activities without going mad trying to get a word in edgewise.  He knows how to get in his two cents and get out when the subject bores him.  This is all good, because the three of us are taking a twelve day trip together in June, and it's a first.  Before, my friend and I have traveled alone, or once, with my childhood friend.  So we're trying something new and different, and it symbolizes a new level of connection for the three of us.  We each know how to take care of ourselves and each other pretty well, after forty years.  I love it!