Conversation this weekend with dear old friend Mitchell. We talked about everything under the sun, and at one point we discussed making new friends. How challenging it can be sometimes … how life is too short, when you get to be our age, to put up with friends you don’t click with, or friends who consistently annoy you or let you down. Mitchell blurted out to me the following monologue, pretty much off the cuff, and exactly as written below. He finished speaking and I said, taking out my pen, “Okay, say that again…Go slow…I have to write this down.”
Mitchell:
“I have room for new people in my life but only the extraordinary need apply. Extraordinary is defined as:
a. Has seen Harold and Maude
b. Must know OF Joni Mitchell, and preferably owns “Blue”
c. Has read J.D. Salinger (if they prefer Franny and Zooey to Catcher in the Rye, even better.)
Substitutions are accepted on a case by case basis.”
