We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend… So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (a diptych)
(Can you tell that I have become re-enamored with RLS? I came to love his books half a century ago…).