Friendship as a trusted and faithful custodian of someone’s story, of being a friend to them through the accumulation of knowledge that might otherwise isolate us. An interesting observation from Sammy Rhodes. The hard work of friendship is entrusting your heart to another and risking your story while at the same time holding your friend’s …
The pursuit of happiness will be futile if it is happiness itself which is being sought. Happiness can only be experienced as a fruit of seeking after that which endures. Sammy Rhodes writes about modern relationships and the reasons they founder: Wanting happiness isn’t a bad thing. It’s a human thing. The problem is that …
Sammy Rhodes is writing about the way in which effects of his parent’s divorce ripple through his life and perceptions. He recounts the combination of cynicism and romanticism about marriage that the children of divorced parents have. One couple for whom he performed a marriage vowed ‘never to divorce’ one another, a promise that Rhodes …
Sammy Rhodes’ book This Is Awkward evokes a lot of familiar emotions as he writes about his own experiences with his father, and the impact those experiences have on his life and relationships with his own children. Our first gifts to our children are the characteristics they’ve either inherited or learned from us. And sometimes …
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