Blog 2922 – 10. 30.2023

Charlotte’s Web – Chapter 22

“Charlotte was in a class of her own. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.” Thus E.B. White ends his classic tale Charlotte’s Web. Wilbur loves her children, grand children, and great grand children, but no one ever takes Charlotte’s place in his heart.

The Bible’s says, “There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.” Charlotte was that friend to Wilbur and most of us do not have to think very hard to acknowledge who our dearest friend was and is. Three short sentences in my daily mantra say it all for me: “I mirror you. I admire you. I worship you.”

Another of my favorite writers, Robert Heinlein, in his book Stranger In A Strange Land, has one of the women who has kissed Michael the man from Mars described what it is like to be kissed by him. She says that when Mike kisses you it is like he has no where else to be, nothing else to do, and that there is no one else in the world. He is totally focused on you and you alone.

That my friends is the power of love to see ourselves reflected in the eyes of another, completely admired, and singularly worshipped.

Charlotte saw Wilbur, truly saw him, and truly love him and helped others to see that he was indeed “Some Pig, Terrific, Radiant, and Humble.”

Both a friend and a good writer she was. Both noble goals to aspire to, say I.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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Charlotte’s Web – Chapter 22