2. What can we do to keep our friendship？
An old friendship had grown cold. Where once there had been closeness， there was only strain. Now pride kept me from picking up the phone.
Then one day I dropped in on another old friend who’s had a long career as a minister and counselor. We were seated in his study—surrounded by maybe a thousand books and fell into deep conversation about everything from small computers to the tormented life of Beethoven.