This is the fourth and final episode of the summer Friendship Series. For the past month, I’ve taken a deep dive into friendship –– including

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This is the fourth and final episode of the summer Friendship Series. For the past month, I’ve taken a deep dive into friendship –– including the role friendship plays in our life; the ways in which culture influences friendship; and the gender dynamics in friendship. Today, I explore creative friendships.

Each theme includes audio interviews with over a dozen friends, as well as 7 sensory ways to explore friendship. For previous issues, visit The Friendship Series.

I made my first creative friendship on a full moon. I wouldn’t have known it, if he hadn’t scribbled “Look up” on his receipt. I had been too busy all evening –– head down, taking orders, running cocktails –– to notice the spotlight in the sky, shining like a projector over St Marks street.

I couldn’t have guessed that this stranger’s note was signaling a bigger change –– something to look forward to and someone to look up to. At that point I had a liberal arts college degree in my back pocket, and a notepad in my waitress apron. I wasn’t one to pray but I had done my own version: sending hopeful wishes out to the ether, which went something like “Get me out of here.”