Every year about this time, a friend of mine always says, "If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb." I would not mind it so much if I knew what in the world he was talking about.

That is the thing about friendship. We allow people to go on and on about something without the slightest notion of what they are talking about and yet, we most heartily agree with their opinion. I suppose that is why we are still friends. We put up with their eccentricities in hopes that they will reciprocate.

Friendship like this is the perfect example of Ying and Yang, and I'm not even Chinese, although Egg Foo Yong is not so bad and I can play chopsticks on the piano. To put it in language I can understand, there is a little bit of me in thee and a little bit of thee in me, so it hardly behooves me to speak ill of thee.

I suppose when we think of the lion and the lamb we are thinking about opposites. The lion is facing one way and the lamb is facing another way. Then somebody will say, "Well, opposites attract." I suppose they do, but what in the world do they attract? And why should I be interested in it?