as good as spring itself

on friendship

I am thinking about a scene in the last episode of The White Lotus.

As a whole, the season was just okay, but it was Laurie’s speech on the last evening at the hotel, to Jaclyn and Kate—the two other thirds of what Mike White calls “the blonde blob”—that made it worth it.

‘As you get older,’ she says, ‘you have to justify your life, you know? And your cho…