A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

More from Pam Brown

• A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
• I think we have the kind of friendship were if I were the devil, you’d be the only one I would tell.
• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
• A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
• A friendship that can end never really began.