Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

Richness starts from within_not without.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

[Next, I looked up Elizabeth Bishop's poem] North Haven, ... The caftan in clear red silk with a richness of eyelet embroidery at outstretched sleeve. Did someone say party?

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude