Share your hobby with a friend.
Water is a good place to play with friends.
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A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift.
A friend is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy, and grace,
And makes the world we live in
A wetter and happier place.
A Wet Friend ...
Accepts you wet as you are
Believes in "you"
Calls you just to say "Hi"
Doesn't give up on you
Envisions the whole of you (even the dry parts)
Forgives mistakes
Gives unconditionally
Helps you get wet
Invites you over for a shower
Jumps in the pool with you fully clothed
Keeps you close at heart
Loves you for who you are
Makes a difference in your life
Never Judges
Offers support
Picks you up
Quiets your fears
Raises your spirits
Swims with you in clothes
Tells you the truth when you need to hear it
Understands you
Values you
Washes your clothes (while you're still in them)
X-plains things you don't understand
Yells when you won't listen and
Zaps you back to reality
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In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and "the Doyler", two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an island in Dublin Bay
the following Easter. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys'
friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be overtaken by tragedy.
O'Neill's prose, playing merrily
with vocabulary, syntax and idiom, has unsurprisingly drawn comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but
in his creation of comic characters (such as Jim's pathetic but irrepressible father) and in the sheer scale of his
work, Charles Dickens springs to mind first. But Dickens never wrote a love story between young men as achingly
beautiful as this.
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