Tonight, or early morning tomorrow , they say will be the darkest day in over 300 years. This is true since it is not only the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, but it is also Lunar Eclipse, the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon.

It sounds exciting but unless you were up from midnight to 5 am, you missed it. I rather find my excitement in friends.

There is an old saying: “What are friend good for?” Now let me tell you some of the ways.

When your wife wants a kitchen cabinet made over with two sliding drawers and you hire someone to do it, he does, but it does not work properly. The person disappears and your wife says all she really wants for Christmas is the cabinet made right. A friend comes over and after many hours of labor makes it the way you wife wants it.

When your opposition to unjust and immoral wars gets misunderstood as being against soldiers and veterans, a friends calls you and asks you if want to join him in visiting veterans in the locked unit at the local veterans hospital. These are the very persons suffering from terrible illness from war that you are struggling to help with your opposition to wars.

When you are feeling down and out and a friend says you a really funny joke by email.

When people are ignoring your research and a friend, who knows what he is talking about, sends you an email and says: “Great Research.”

These are few of the joy and excitement I have found from friends the last few days. How about you? What are friends good for?

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