Friendship
1989
Ink on paper
7" x 5 "

"Almost in spite of ourselves, there are moments of comradeship. In the desperate searching, there are hesitant reachings out, tentative touchings which do not always prickle. We begin to sense from others the meaning of relationship and learn that it is larger than people... And there are those who, while passing without pausing, signal a sense of direction with a clarity which teaches us that direction can also be ours. Within, there is a growing realization that the less desperately one needs people, the more possible it is to be easy with them.

To initiate instead of waiting to respond. To choose a direction instead of hoping to be chosen. How absurdly simple! How excruciatingly difficult! At this moment one is at the edge of adventure."

— Richard A. Kellaway, The Trying Out, 1968.