Tag: Friendship

• The Fifth Love

  Of a morning, I’m woken up by the song Higher Love by Steve Winwood. And not every morning, I ask myself, “What is this song really about?””Where is this higher love he keeps thinking of anyway?” Perhaps this higher love might be one of C. S. Lewis‘s The Four Loves: Storge: Love experienced by and for family members,…

  Andrew Whalan

  June 21, 2015

  Personal

  agape, eros, Family, Friendship, infatuation, Love, philia, Poetry, relationship, Romance, storge

• A Learning Conversation

  It was a long bus trip from the city to the suburbs. It was made worse by the conversation I couldn’t avoid.   The two girls sitting in front of me were going through a laundry list of possessions. Each one seemed to be trying to out do the other. It reminded me of Clarisse in…

  Andrew Whalan

  January 28, 2013

  Personal

  Adult Learning, Conversation, Education, Friendship, Learning, Listening

• Getting the Introduction Right (Networking)

  Once I thought networking was all about introducing yourself. But after some contemplation, I realised it worked best for me when I introduced others. And got that right. And that took some doing. The first time I got it wrong was when I had just met a beautiful girl at a dance. I introduced her to…

  Andrew Whalan

  December 4, 2012

  Personal

  Business networking, Friendship, Interpersonal relationship, people, Relationships, Twitter