Makes
Things Less Scary
Written
by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel
In this time of social distancing
friends are more important than ever. Thinking of the times we've spent
together, we share ourselves and build our lives. And now – phoning, texting,
Facebooking, waving from our windows – we reach out.
SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and
Patti Kishel just celebrated 10 years of friendship in April. It seems like
we've been friends forever...an endless summer of new adventures. Patti's
husband Greg calls us "two peas in a pod."
Famed artist Georgia O'Keeffe
compared friendship to developing an artist's eye…and learning to recognize and
value the small things.
Sunny has known her lifelong friend Cyn
Mejia-Giudici since they were in elementary school in Seattle. Their dads
were both in the Navy and the two families stayed close even when they moved to
different states.
Sunny always laughs when she thinks
of the adventure she and Cyn had when they were just out of high school and
drove from SoCal to San Francisco in her 1966 Barracuda.
Seeing them drive away, her mom quickly
loaded up the family car with Sunny's brothers and sisters and followed behind
all the way to keep an eye on them.
Patti has childhood friends she
still sees every year for an annual post-Thanksgiving Culver City High School
girls' brunch.
Giving thanks for each other over
glasses of wine, lifetimes and milestones are shared and celebrated.
As SurfWriter Girls, writing beach-themed
stories, we've made amazing friends, including our mentor Tony Soriano,
Surfrider Foundation Huntington/Seal Beach chapter advisor. Tony, an environmentalist,
spends almost as much time cleaning the beach as surfing the waves.
Friends can come in all shapes and
sizes, seem perfectly matched or total opposites. They know what we're thinking
before we think it.
They see our flaws, but like us
anyway, reminding us that – no matter the distance or danger – we will always
be in their hearts.
And, like Calvin
and Hobbes, they help to keep us safe.
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