Affection
Beauty
Laughter
Safe secrets
Magic
Sharing
Honesty
Creativity
Acceptance
Luscious love

"Yes, luscious love!" exclaims Cree Summer as she and her soul mate/best friend/spirit sister, Lilakoi Moon (a.k.a. Lisa Bonet), compose a list of words that define friendship.

Has there been a time when you felt like you weren't there for your sister?

C: Yeah I've had times like that. I've had times where I wished I could've done more. When [Lilakoi's] Nana passed I felt like I couldn't do enough, like I didn't know how to do enough.

L: It seems we know how to take care of each other better than we know how to take care of ourselves.

C: Hear, hear! I would say on that tip you're right. We do know how to show up for each other.

Is that through practice or just human nature?

C: Human nature

L: Well you know I'm just 34, and I can finally say I love myself and I love my soul. It's taken me all these years.

C: (baby voice): You have a beautiful soul, FYI.

L: (giggle)

C: I second that emotion. It takes a long time unfortunately to learn that you have to care for yourself. Sometimes it's easier to care for and show up and love some body else.

How has this bond allowed you to explore yourself? They answer in a tag-team, finishing each other's sentences way that is completely unconscious to them, but becomes the norm.

L: When you feel loved unconditionally.

C: You let it all hang out.

L: Mm-hmm. And you feel totally safe and if you forget yourself, your friends.

C: Remind you. Ha ha!

L: Yeah, and they're never going to forget you.

C: She's [Lilakoi] very much like a big sister to me in a lot of ways. So much of the planet is un-mothered properly, and I think for me I've found a lot of mothering in my sister. There have been moments where she's been known to take literal care of me, and teach me things that my momma didn't do like how to cook, and how to do this, and what's good for this.

L: Aww.

L: You know what's amazing is that we're talking about being in our early thirties and just getting to love ourselves, but how Zoe (Lilakoi's daughter) has it. My prayer for her is for the love that she has for her self, that she doesn't have to spend 20 years looking for it. It's really astounding to see that. It's a beautiful thing to see young women who love themselves.

It's a beautiful gift to give to your daughter, a sense of herself.

C: She's so together. She just told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago, "I respect myself." I thought that was such a beautiful statement.

God, I was so lost at thirteen.

C: dig it. I didn't even know what "I respect myself" meant at thirteen.

L: No, no. I was already leaving my body at thirteen.

C: On purpose.

L: Yeah. Wow. (everyone nods and marvels at the difference between Zoe's wisdom at thirteen and our own lost souls)

What do you say to women who believe that women just can't be friends or trust each other?

C: I think it's another brainwash, another hangover from history. Like men don't cry, or men make bad cooks, or women aren't good fighters or whatever. We've all got these notions that have been implanted into us by religion, race, class, and one of the fucked up pieces of propaganda is that women don't like each other. And I think that was a very wise poison to implant into us, because when women get together there's such a deep powerful support and self acceptance when you're loved by other women.

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