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Friendships That Are Stronger Than Words

Mar 26, 2013
by Caroline Miller
"The Case for Face", Elizabeth Berg
13 Comments

Bestselling author, Elizabeth Berg wrote in an essay, “I don’t believe an online relationship is a relationship – not a real one.” (“The Case for Face,” by Elizabeth Berg, Good Housekeeping, April 2013, pg. 121.) The statement caught my eye because of a recent exchange I’d had with one of my Facebook pals. He’d sent me a picture of a rose in honor of our friendship, he wrote. The gesture was lovely, but did we have a friendship, I wondered. It’s true I’ve sent him soothing words during his school exams and have offered sympathy to his love-sick heart.

But given the difference in our age — he is early 20 and I am mid 70 — and the difference in our cultures which are geographically and ideologically miles apart, could we ever really be friends? History shows us a few examples of friendships forged through correspondence alone. But a smiley face or a greeting of “Hi,” won’t take my Facebook friend and I very far.

 I agree with Berg that friendship that are strongest when hands touch or a soothing word is spoken. A presence of either sort invades the walls of our isolation in the happiest way.

 Being a wordsmith, like the author, I respect the power of the written word to convey feelings. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t write for Amnesty International or this blog. But a dimension is lost when our other senses are deprived. They, too, are powerful communicators. Relationships built with those can withstand a tearful call in the dead of night.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

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