I recently had lunch with a group of lady friends. We all know each other, mostly from current or past work relationships.
We’re comfortable together. There are no strangers among us and, bottom line, we’re pretty much all cut from the same cloth when it comes to what piques our interests and animates our conversations. Our group shares the rewards of our connectedness. There is little to no risk involved. We share mutual trust.
When I first learned of author Claude Hammond’s “Wednesdays with Wally” and the gist of the book, I grew curious. I knew it to be a true account of an elderly man, Wally, whom the author befriended in the last decade of Wally’s life….