Anna Konkle Instagram – Friendships can be as deep as being in love. Female friendships are often portrayed as thin and fun and vapid. They missed it. It’s as serious as love and war. Our community, our support of one another is what raises babies to be big people and maintains us the ability to tell stories of unmatched adversity, while managing to get up and stand again. It is embedded with stoicism. These relationships, these vital things, are utterly serious, actually. Hits of levity, devoured like cake, within it. It’s an honor to write about it. To depict it. To show children being emotionally intelligent. We aren’t hiding. We are enough. We are important. We are not a side dish to the meal. We are the meal.