I am truly blessed to have more than one person in my life that I feel utterly me with every moment we are together. This homage—if you will—is to one such person who knows the guts of my life and has never placed even the lightest judgement on me. A friendship that has endured for nearly twenty years. A cosmic connection from the moment we met while I was working at a university in Toronto. We were both fresh hires—I a personal counsellor and he a career counsellor. An intrinsic ‘sisterhood’ is what we often say. I have listened to his ‘DRAMA-RAMA’ stories and he has been my ‘spiritual advisor’ seemingly from the start. There is nothing I cannot share with him. And when our conversations are done and our tears have dried, we become the superficial and vain beauty queens that we are and proceed to take the most beautiful selfies together. We may not physically see each other often but I know he’s only a message away. He fills my inbox with his latest artisan dishes. I so enjoy his way of creating art out of thin air just by seeing the world in a way that only he can. So cheers to this special person and cheers to this everlasting soul-connection, or in other words—friendship!

