The Gift of Friendship is something we are given to be caretakers of, to nurture and enrich. But we don't own it. We cannot keep it in a box like a gold necklace or on a shelf like a fragile vase, only to be taken down and admired on special occasions. Our friendships deserve so much more. George Berkeley — known as Bishop Berkeley — was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called “immaterialism”.
