Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I helped with my younger daughter's kids for five hours then went back home and called my "swim buddy" friend to talk about a dharma talk from Sunday.  We had a delightful time talking about experiencing joy in the cosmos, then my older daughter's amazing intelligence and insight in the face of her biggest challenge, then Hilma de Klimt, the great Swedish painter, then the stars this morning at four am when my friend slipped out to her balcony to wonder at them, then Venus, then my four year old grandson's sighting of the Big Dipper and Venus, then how strange and wonderful and unknowable this universe is.  We fly together and zip through the clouds and dive and soar.   What a Buddhist companion I have, and how fortunate I feel to share our experiences.