Rules for Visiting

by Jessica Francis Kane

There was a quiet elegance to it, a hushed quality, missing from today’s internet.

Ask me for my biography and I will tell you the books I have read.’”

And yet how many of us can say we’ve made an accommodation, a sacrifice seemingly against our very nature, for a friend?

We document our lives for people near and far with status updates and photographs, but we rarely just show up.

Sometimes, just show up.