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to give thanks for my 25 years.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

We all need friends

We all need friends - an overused saying but a truism.  Where would we be without them?  The monks in the picture are on their morning rounds for almsgiving.  Even they need help and look who's helping them. 

A good friend from Australia came to visit me in Bangkok.  It's quite an effort to undertake but Stella wanted to come and here she is.  Om, my great Thai friend here, wanted to come to the airport to greet her.  Thank God he did as he helped with the bags.  Then it was get her to the hotel and what to do for dinner?  What better idea than buy Italian from Nando who has his restaurant by my apartment building.  Nando was very careful to give a great plate of pasta and what a plate it was!  A quest was to find a clothing store where my friend could get clothes made.  I took her to a small clothing business owned by a family I know through the cathedral.  Well, they didn't have the material.  So the woman who runs the business says to Stella that she will take her to the store to buy material.  So off they go. 

The list goes on.  We all need friends.  As St Augustine says, the greatest poverty in life is not to have any friends.  How true!

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