20 Friend Dates 🌹 - by Annika Hansteen-Izora

If I’m gonna talk about the homies, we’re gonna start this one off with gratitude. Thank you to every friend with whom sitting in silence is enough of its own conversation. Thank you to every braid that gets caught in my hoops when we hug. Thank you to every homie who calls me out on my shit. The biggest thanks to every friend that sees the best parts of myself even when I don’t and gently asks them to come on out to shine. Thank you, group chat. Thank you zoom calls and facetimes. Thank you friends that show me that another world is not only possible but is in fact, reachable. Thank you to my friends who say “biiiiiitttcccchhhhh!” as another way of saying “I love you.” Thank you to my friends for deepening my understanding and practice of care. Thank you too to the friends that are no longer friends, I hope we’re both being held by the kind of love we learned we need. Thank you to the phone numbers of friends that I can still recite by heart. Thank you to the friends who really under

If I’m gonna talk about the homies, we’re gonna start this one off with gratitude. Thank you to every friend with whom sitting in silence is enough of its own conversation. Thank you to every braid that gets caught in my hoops when we hug. Thank you to every homie who calls me out on my shit. The biggest thanks to every friend that sees the best parts of myself even when I don’t and gently asks them to come on out to shine. Thank you, group chat. Thank you zoom calls and facetimes. Thank you friends that show me that another world is not only possible but is in fact, reachable. Thank you to my