Drawing the Chicken 5: Friendship and creative community

Yesterday was Diwali, and this past week was the first Diwali of meeting people since 2019. My family has never been big on celebrations of any kind, but my partner and I hosted a pre-Diwali potluck on Saturday, and it reminded me of a beautiful something that COVD took from me: friendship.

Not that my friends and I are no longer each other’s friends — …